>[sent 8 April]
>Captain Louis and Seth-

>We plan to load the Sproul on Wednesday afternoon, for both cruises.  Woody
>will be taking care of the setup/loading of the MOCNESS.
>
>CRUISE 1, the equipment test cruise, leaves 0800 Friday and returns by 0700
>Saturday.  We will be testing an autonomous profiling vehicle (APV) and a
>GPS drifter.  We will need to have a small boat on board (e.g., Boston
>Whaler-like vessel), for recovery of the APV.
>    Charlie Coughran just contacted me this a.m. about piggy-backing on this
>cruise, to deploy a concrete anchor 1/4 mile from the SIO pier.  I told him
>that I have no problem with this, but he will have to do it early Saturday
>morning (probably 2-4 a.m. or so), after we are through with other things.
>He may need help deploying this from the trawl wire on the A-frame.
>
>
>CRUISE 2, the student training cruise, leaves 0800 Saturday and returns by
>0800 Sunday.  We will use a MOCNESS (noon deployment, midnight deployment),
>a plankton pump system, bongo net, and neuston net.  We will deploy the
>MOCNESS from the 0.322 conducting wire, the plankton pump hose lowered over
>the side by hand, the bongo net from the A-frame with the hydrowire, and the
>neuston net from the the daybrook crane using the hydrowire.
>    So we will need at least 2 sheaves on the A-frame:  1 for the 0.322 wire
>and one for the hydrowire.  If Charlie Coughran's operation takes place, I
>guess he will need a 3rd sheave, to lower his concrete anchor (roughly 4 ft.
>diameter, 2 ft. high) from the A-frame.
>   We will also need a sheave for the daybrook crane, to hold the neuston
>net (a Manta net).
>   Seth-  the science party, including Woody but not you, totals 13 for this
>cruise.  Are there accommodations for you too?
>
>Let me know if you have questions.
>Mark Ohman
>
>++++++++++


Date: Tue, 2 Apr 96 13:38:22 PST
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Subject: Re: cruise plan
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Cruise 1:  APV test  (0800 12 April - 0800 13 April)

Personnel:
   Mark Ohman,  Associate Professor, Chief Scientist
   David Jacobs, Assistant Research Oceanographer
   Kim McCoy, SIO staff volunteer
   Andrew Juhl, graduate student
   Alex DeRobertis, graduate student
   Glen Claxton, SIO staff volunteer
   Kevin Tinsley, SIO laboratory assistant

Purpose:    Test of Autonomous Profiling Vehicle  

Operating area:  SD Trough.  32 d. 40' N to 33 d. 10' N, 
                                                 117 d. 20' W to 118 d. 0' W

   Only light equipment (CTD and APV) will enter the water.


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Cruise 2:  Student training cruise   (0800 13 April - 0800 14 April)

Personnel:
  Mark Ohman,  Associate Professor, Chief Scientist
  Annie Townsend, Museum Scientist
  Woody Sutherland, STS Manager
  Amy Bridgeman, graduate student
  Adrian Costa, graduate student
  Jana Davis, graduate student
  Alex DeRobertis, graduate student
  Wendy Enright, graduate student
  Michael Graham, graduate student
  Andrew Juhl, graduate student
  Ginger Rebstock, graduate student
  Amy Shankle, graduate student
  unnamed,  graduate student
  unnamed,  graduate student


Purpose:  Student training in zooplankton sampling techniques (for SIO 271).

Operating area:  SD Trough.  32 d. 40' N to 33 d. 10' N, 
                                                 117 d. 20' W to 118 d. 0' W
   (same as cruise #1)


  A 1 m^2 MOCNESS will sample to 500 m.  Bongo deployments will be done to
300 m.  Plankton pumping will be done to 50 m.  Neuston sampling will be
done at the surface.  


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My class met yesterday for the first time and it was impossible to provide
names of participants until now.