Mid-Cruise Report Bering Ecosystem Study-Bering Sea Integrated
Sea ecosystem under varying conditions of ice cover in order to better understand ecosystem response to ongoing changes in climate, ice cover (extent of ice cover and timing of ice formation and retreat), and accompanying oceanographic conditions. To this aim, twelve projects are supported on cruise...
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2008
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| Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.367.7382 http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/foci/operations/2008/HLY0802/20080420midcruisereport.pdf |
| Summary: | Sea ecosystem under varying conditions of ice cover in order to better understand ecosystem response to ongoing changes in climate, ice cover (extent of ice cover and timing of ice formation and retreat), and accompanying oceanographic conditions. To this aim, twelve projects are supported on cruise HLY0802 on board the USCGC Healy in the Bering Sea during the period of March 31-May 6, 2008. The cruise is loosely divided into two segments because of a personnel exchange on April 20 at St. Paul, Alaska. Forty-six science party members were embarked for much of the first portion of the cruise; forty-one will be embarked during the second portion. To date, we have surveyed across three major cross-shelf transects – the NP (southernmost east-west) line, the MN (central east-west) line, and the SL (northernmost east-west) line – as well as across the shorter W line (oblique line connecting to MN line) (Figure 1). Most recently we have conducted a repeat sampling of much of the NP line. Each transect consisted of a series of stations at which several sampling activities were routinely conducted, including Conductivity-Temperature-Depth with rosette casts, Video Plankton Recorder casts, and CalVET net tows. At many locations, the benthic |
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