Cha Ba Mooring 2023
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PortPlanned routeStationMooring / vehicle
Planned route: 14 segments · ~40 hours steaming · 13 stations
Operating area: Pacific NW
Route: Newport (Oregon) - United States → Seattle (Downtown Piers) (Washington) - United States
Sep 23 – Sep 26, 20234 days at seaactual: departed Sep 23, 2023, arrived Sep 26, 2023
Projects aboard (2)
Cha Ba Mooring 2023
Fall mooring turnarounds to swap summer and winter moorings. CTD stations and net tows to document conditions related to ocean acidification.
People aboard
Cha Ba Mooring 2023
- Robert Kamphaus · Principal investigator
- Jan Newton · Chief scientist
TN-423 Newport, OR to Seattle, WA
- Robert Kamphaus · Principal investigator
Party size: 10
Estimated vacant berths: 25
Equipment
Aboard the vessel
- Ship Fitted Winches & Wires
- Overboarding Cable - Copper Conductor(s)
- Crane
- Stern A-Frame
- Navigation - Heading/Position
- Dynamic Positioning (DP)
- Underway Seawater System
- pCO2
- Meteorological Data
- Echosounder, 12kHz
- ADCP/UHDAS – range < 80m (eg. 300kHz)
- Multibeam - Mid-Water (EM302/304)
- Dynamic Positioning (DP)
- Multibeam - Mid-Water (EM302/304)
- ADCP/UHDAS – range 500-750m (e.g. 75kHz)
- Multibeam - Deep Water (EM122, EM124)
Pooled / portable
- CTD
- Winch Pool Portable Winch
- Gyrocompass
Schedule data from UNOLS Marine Facilities Planning · operator cruise code TN-423 Cha Ba 2023 · MFP references 23/3103, 23/3123 · synced Sep 30, 2026