U.S. JGOFS  Antarctic Environment and Southern Ocean Process Study
(AESOPS)   Cruise Descriptions

Cruises aboard the R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer
Cruise track map <../../../images/southern/palmer.gif>

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      Site Survey <about9604.htm> (NBP-96-4)
      Cruise dates: 8/30/96 - 9/24/96 Chief Scientist: Robert Anderson

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      Ross Sea Process Study 1 <about9604A.htm> (NBP-96-4A)
      Cruise dates: 10/02/96 - 11/08/96 Chief Scientist: Walker Smith

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      Mooring Deployment <about9605.htm> (NBP-96-5)
          Cruise dates: 11/11/96 - 12/01/96 Chief Scientist: Jack Dymond
          Location of AESOPS mooring array
          <../../../images/southern/somoorings.gif>, graphic courtesy of
          Suzanne O'Hara of Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia
      University

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      Ross Sea Process Study 2 <about9701.htm> (NBP-97-1)
      Cruise dates: 1/13/97 - 2/11/97 Chief Scientist: John Marra

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      Ross Sea Process Study 3 <about9703.htm> (NBP-97-3)
      Cruise dates: 4/04/97 - 5/11/97 Chief Scientist: Hugh Ducklow

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      Ross Sea Process Study 4 <about9708.htm> (NBP-97-8)
      Cruise dates: 11/05/97 - 12/13/97 Chief Scientist: Walker Smith

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      Benthic Process and Mooring Recovery <about9802.htm> (NBP-98-2)
      Cruise dates: 02/25/98 - 04/03/98 Chief Scientist: Susumu Honjo

Cruises aboard the R/V Roger A. Revelle
Cruise track map <../../../images/southern/revelle.gif>

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      Polar Front Survey I <aboutrr6.htm> (Revelle KIWI 6)
      Cruise dates: 10/20/97 - 11/24/97 Chief Scientist: Timothy Cowles

          SeaWiFS transmits images to US JGOFS scientists aboard Palmer
      <aesops-seawifs.htm>, for first time on November 23, 1997.
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      Polar Front Process I <aboutrr7.htm> (Revelle KIWI 7)
      Cruise dates: 12/02/97 - 01/03/98 Chief Scientist: Richard Barber

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      Polar Front Survey II <aboutrr8.htm> (Revelle KIWI 8)
      Cruise dates: 01/08/98 - 02/08/98 Chief Scientist: Kenneth Coale

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      Polar Front Process II <aboutrr9.htm> (Revelle KIWI 9)
          Cruise dates: 02/13/98 - 03/19/98 Chief Scientist: Wilford
      Gardner



Research Vessel Information

R.V.I.B. Nathaniel B. Palmer
<http://www.nsf.gov/od/opp/support/nathpalm.htm>

R/V Roger Revelle
<http://www.sio.ucsd.edu/shipsked/ships/revelle/index.html>