+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | ATLANTIS CRUISE SYNOPSIS | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Voyage - Leg: AT 07-01 Voyage Dates: 22 - 30 Sep 2001 Chief Sci(s): Cindy Van Dover Address: College of William & Mary PO Box 8795 Biology Department Williamsburg, VA 23187 Phone: 757-221-2229 Email: clvand@wm.edu Cruise Objective: Studies of diversity in mussel beds Science Activities: Replicate "mussel pot", 2 subsites, 15 pots Multibeam bathymetry of sediment wave field on Inner Blake Ridge--important for gas hydrate dynamics Gravity coring near ODP Site 996 Take push cores for study of Foraminifera Search for chemosynthetic bacterial mats in the area and then pushcoring into mats Operations Area: ODP Site 996 32-29.633N 76-11.45W Also sediment wave field for Seabeam, centered at approx. 31-53N 75-47W 2200-2700 m SSSG Tech: sssg@atlantis.whoi.edu Departure Port: New York, NY Agent: Kerr Norton Marine 200 Plaza Drive Secaucus, NJ 07096 Contact: Ruben Arroyo Phone: (201) 392-2875 Fax: (201) 392-3032 Email: knmopsnj@bellatlantic.net Arrival Port: Charleston, SC Agent: Kerr Norton Marine Riverside Place 1233 Ben Sawyer Blvd., Suite D101 Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464 Contact: John Perez Phone: (843) 856-8882 Fax: (843) 856-9176 Email: knmnlichs@aol.com Installed Scientific CTD/rosette Equipment: Deionized water Fume hood 5 liter Niskins Refrigerator Chest freezer -70 freezer WHOI-Provided Science Gravity corer Tools: Alvin push cores (50 one-foot-long coring tubes, 100 caps to match, hardware (stoppers with T handles, clamps) for 20 push cores per dive) Major water samplers Slurp sampler Elevator Go-Flo bottles Program-Provided Mussel pots Science Tools: Plasma plankton pump SIPPER micro-electrode system Mosquito thermocouple Mini spitters Chimney samplers Cary bio boxes Animal collection rig Shipboard Seabeam Equipment/Nav: Other Requirements: Basket set-up for 6 milk crates Notes: Science party will conduct geochemical studies on recovered cores. Reeburgh squeezers for core material requires compressed N2. Storage of some core material for onshore microbiological research will require use of a modest amount of freezer space. Science party is providing nearly everything needed for work on the cores and Van Dover's samples (Steve Macko's group at UVA). Navy Clearance Status: Granted 9/20/01: A. WITHIN 10 NM RADIUS OF 32-27N 76-07W DURING PERIOD 230000Z SEP THRU 010000Z OCT 01 B. WITHIN 10 NM RADIUS OF 31-53N 75-47W DURING PERIOD 230000Z SEP THRU 010000Z OCT 01 Last Modified: 06/26/2003 Check List: Required? Comments US Customs Form No Explosives Clearance No Isotope Use Approval No Diplomatic Clearance No SCUBA Diving No