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MAS-MBC cruise 2025

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Robert Gordon Sproul

Robert Gordon Sproul

Scripps Institution of Oceanography · USA

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Planned route: 6 segments · ~4 hours steaming · 5 stations

Operating area: San Diego offshore

›2 legs· San Diego (California) - United States → San Diego (California) - United States
  1. 1San Diego (California) - United States→San Diego (California) - United StatesJul 19 – Jul 20, 2025 · 1 d
  2. 2San Diego (California) - United States→San Diego (California) - United StatesJul 20 – Jul 21, 2025 · 1 d

Jul 19 – Jul 21, 20252 days at seaactual: departed Jul 19, 2025, arrived Jul 21, 2025

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Project aboard

We would like to introduce the students to oceanographic techniques: plankton net tows, mid-water and bottom trawling, soft sediment multi-corer, and Van Veen grab as well as whale and seabird observations and basic ship operations. We expect to depart MARFAC 7am and return to port in the evening ~9-pm


People aboard

  • Greg Rouse · Principal investigator

Party size: 10

Estimated vacant berths: 2

Equipment

Aboard the vessel

  • Ship Fitted Winches & Wires
  • Crane
  • Echosounder, 12kHz
  • Echosounder, 3.5kHz CHIRP

Pooled / portable

  • Sediment Core
  • Grab Sampler
  • Other Seafloor Sampling Equipment
  • Isaacs Kidd Midwater Trawl (IKMT)

Schedule data from UNOLS Marine Facilities Planning · operator cruise code SP2527 Seid & SP2528 · MFP reference 24/4811 · synced Sep 24, 2026