SIO 176 Spring 2025
Completed
Planned route: 7 segments · ~3 hours steaming · 2 stations
Operating area: San Diego Bay exterior and offshore Coronodo Island
Route: San Diego (California) - United States → San Diego (California) - United States
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Project aboard
This cruise will focus on measuring the outflow plume from San Diego Bay through a series of CTD stations, VMP tow-yos, ADCP transects, and surface drifters. The purpose of this is to give students in SIO 176 the opportunity to experience how measurements are collected aboard a research vessel and test/deploy sensors that they have either built or programed. The students will play an active role in designing the field experiment, choosing the sampling stations and measurements as part of their project.
People aboard
- Sophia Merrifield · Principal investigator
Party size: 11
Estimated vacant berths: 1
Equipment
Aboard the vessel
- Ship Fitted Winches & Wires
- Crane
- Stern A-Frame
- Underway Seawater System
- Meteorological Data
- Echosounder, 12kHz
- Echosounder, 3.5kHz CHIRP
- ADCP/UHDAS – range < 80m (eg. 300kHz)
Pooled / portable
- CTD
Science party brings
- Science Supplied Portable Winch
Schedule data from UNOLS Marine Facilities Planning · operator cruise code SP2511 Merrifield · MFP reference 25/5591 · synced Sep 24, 2026