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TGT Verification

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Thomas G. Thompson

Thomas G. Thompson

University of Washington · USA

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PortTrack / waypointPlanned route

Planned route: 145 segments · ~11 days steaming

Operating area: Western Pacific

›2 legs· Keppel Wharves - Singapore → Davao, Mindanao - Philippines
  1. 1Keppel Wharves - Singapore→Cebu - PhilippinesDec 1 – Dec 9, 2025 · 8 d
  2. 2Cebu - Philippines→Davao, Mindanao - PhilippinesDec 10 – Dec 16, 2025 · 6 d

Dec 1 – Dec 16, 202515 days at seaactual: departed Dec 1, 2025, arrived Dec 16, 2025

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Projects aboard (2)

TGT Verification

Instrument verification cruise to test out all the newly installed and relocated science systems on R/V Thomas G. Thompson following an intermediate drydock period in Aug-Oct 2025.


People aboard

TGT Verification

  • Robert Kamphaus · Principal investigator
  • Daniel Orange · Chief scientist

Test

  • Robert Kamphaus · Principal investigator

Party size: 20

Estimated vacant berths: 15

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
  • Sub-bottom Profiler
  • Echosounder, 12kHz
  • Echosounder, 3.5kHz CHIRP
  • ADCP/UHDAS – range < 80m (eg. 300kHz)
  • ADCP/UHDAS – range 250-350m (e.g. 150kHz)
  • ADCP/UHDAS – range 500-750m (e.g. 75kHz)
  • Multibeam - Deep Water (EM122, EM124)
  • Science (Wave/Ice) Radar

Pooled / portable

  • CTD
  • XBT
  • Gravimeter
  • Gyrocompass

Schedule data from UNOLS Marine Facilities Planning · operator cruise code TN-447 Inst. Verific · MFP references 25/6450, 25/6605 · synced Sep 30, 2026