MPL intership

Completed

Robert Gordon Sproul

Scripps Institution of Oceanography · USA

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Planned route: 2 segments · ~1 hours steaming · 1 station

Operating area: Offshore of San Diego

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

Jul 9, 20261 day at seaactual: departed Jul 9, 2026, arrived Jul 9, 2026

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Robert Gordon Sproul

Scripps Institution of Oceanography

MAS_July_Aug_2026 — 32 40 N, 117 20W GRay3 — 15-20 miles west of point loma RIOT IOP 1 support vessel — California Channel Islands

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Project aboard

This is intended as an educational experience for the MPL internship program in 2025. 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

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

Schedule data from UNOLS Marine Facilities Planning · operator cruise code SP2613 Pereira · MFP reference 25/6529 · synced Sep 24, 2026