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MPL intership

Completed
Robert Gordon Sproul

Robert Gordon Sproul

Scripps Institution of Oceanography · USA

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Planned route: 5 segments · ~3 hours steaming · 4 stations

Operating area: Offshore of San Diego

Route: San Diego (California) - United States → San Diego (California) - United States

Jul 11 – Jul 12, 20241 day at seaactual: departed Jul 11, 2024, arrived Jul 12, 2024

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Project aboard

This is intended as an educational experience for the MPL internship program in 2024. Sea-going activities will include CTD with water sampling, plankton net tows, collecting data from shipboard flow-through, ADCP, and MET systems. Science party may bring aboard optical systems and microscopes.

People aboard

  • Jules Jaffe · Chief scientist
  • Drew Lucas · Principal investigator

Party size: 11

Estimated vacant berths: 1

Equipment

Aboard the vessel

  • Ship Fitted Winches & Wires
  • Stern A-Frame
  • Underway Seawater System
  • Meteorological Data
  • ADCP/UHDAS – range < 80m (eg. 300kHz)

Pooled / portable

  • CTD

Schedule data from UNOLS Marine Facilities Planning · operator cruise code SP2412 Bergentz · MFP reference 23/3693 · synced Sep 24, 2026