RIOT Shakedown
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Planned route: 3 segments · ~8 hours steaming · 1 station
Operating area: California Channel Islands
›4 legs· San Diego (California) - United States → San Diego (California) - United States
- 1San Diego (California) - United States→San Diego (California) - United StatesMar 17 – Mar 19, 2026 · 2 d
- 2San Diego (California) - United States→San Diego (California) - United StatesMar 20 – Mar 22, 2026 · 2 d
- 3San Diego (California) - United States→San Diego (California) - United StatesMar 24 – Mar 26, 2026 · 2 d
- 4San Diego (California) - United States→San Diego (California) - United StatesMar 28 – Mar 30, 2026 · 2 d
Mar 17 – Mar 30, 202613 days at seaactual: departed Mar 17, 2026, arrived Mar 30, 2026
Feb 2026
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Apr
Robert Gordon Sproul
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Project aboard
The overriding science goal of the Researching Interior Ocean Trajectories DRI is to improve our understanding of interior submesoscale currents (iSMC). This is an engineering test cruise. We plan to test a variety of autonomous platforms that we will then use in intensive observational campaign in July 2026.
People aboard
- Jesse Cusack · Principal investigator
Party size: 8
Estimated vacant berths: 4
Equipment
Aboard the vessel
- Ship Fitted Winches & Wires
- Crane
- Stern A-Frame
- Navigation - Heading/Position
- Underway Seawater System
- Meteorological Data
- Echosounder, 12kHz
- Echosounder, 3.5kHz CHIRP
- Pinger, 12kHz
- ADCP/UHDAS – range < 80m (eg. 300kHz)
- ADCP/UHDAS – range 250-350m (e.g. 150kHz)
- ADCP/UHDAS – range 1000m-1200m (e.g. 38kHz)
- Multibeam - Deep Water (EM122, EM124)
- Biological multi-frequency echosounder - EK80
Science party brings
- Science Supplied Portable Winch
Schedule data from UNOLS Marine Facilities Planning · operator cruise code SP2601 Cusack · MFP reference 25/6066 · synced Sep 24, 2026