CA Seabed (Jason)
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Planned route: 48 segments · ~3 days steaming · 47 stations
Operating area: Central CA slope
Route: Alameda (California) - United States → San Diego (California) - United States
Oct 21 – Nov 2, 202512 days at seaactual: departed Oct 21, 2025, arrived Nov 2, 2025
Sep 2025
Oct
Nov
Projects aboard (2)
Jason Engineering - Sally Ride
24 hrs. of Jason engineering time to piggy-back on the CA Seabed project - SME 23/3789 on Sally Ride in September '25. Preferably to take place before operations for the start of the primary project.
People aboard
Jason Engineering - Sally Ride
- Kevin Kavanagh · Principal investigator
- Matt Heintz · Chief scientist
CA Seabed (Jason)
- Kelly Dorgan · Principal investigator
Party size: 18
Estimated vacant berths: 8
Equipment
Aboard the vessel
- Dynamic Positioning (DP)
- Ultra-Short Base-Line Acoustic Navigation System
- Stern A-Frame
- Ship Fitted Winches & Wires
- Overboarding Cable - Fiber Optic
- Navigation - Heading/Position
- Stern A-Frame
- Dynamic Positioning (DP)
- Echosounder, 12kHz
- Echosounder, 3.5kHz CHIRP
- ADCP/UHDAS – range 1000m-1200m (e.g. 38kHz)
- Multibeam - Deep Water (EM122, EM124)
- Ultra-Short Base-Line Acoustic Navigation System
Pooled / portable
- Winch Pool Portable Winch
- CTD
- Other Seafloor Sampling Equipment
- Other AUV
Science party brings
- Portable Laboratory Vans/Containers - Science Supplied
- Science-provided vans
- Science Supplied Portable Winch
- Science-provided vans
- Portable Laboratory Vans/Containers - Science Supplied
Schedule data from UNOLS Marine Facilities Planning · operator cruise code SR2524 Dorgan · MFP references 24/4853, 23/3789 · synced Sep 30, 2026