Deployment: NBP1302

Deployment: 
NBP1302
Chief Scientist: 
Dennis Hansell (University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, UM-RSMAS)
Synonyms: 
TRACERS 2013
Platform Type:
 vessel
Start Date: 
2013-02-12
End Date: 
2013-04-05
Location: 
Ross Sea
Description

Ross Sea, Antarctica (53 days)
RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer : February-April 2013
McMurdo Station, Antarctica - Punta Arenas, Chile

Project Title: “TRacing the fate of Algal Carbon Export in the Ross Sea” (TRACERS)
Chief Scientist: Dennis Hansell, UM-RSMAS
Project Description: The research focus of this cruise was to investigate the biogeochemistry associated after a phytoplankton bloom at the end of the Antarctic Austral Summer. I helped analyze and coordinate analyses of nutrients (silicic acid, phosphate, and nitrate) and collect samples for dissolved organic carbon (DOC).

Note R2R Link takes user to Marine Geoscience Data System (MGDS):
NBP1302

Nathaniel B. Palmer Systems and Specifications