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Voyage - Leg:       KN 195-03

Voyage Dates:       12Jan - 23 Feb 2009

Chief Scientist(s): Steven D'Hondt
Address:            URI
                    Graduate School of Oceanography
                    URI Narragansett Bay Campus
                    South Ferry Road
                    Narragansett, RI 02882
Phone:              401 874-6808
Email:              dhondt@gso.uri.edu

Cruise Objective:   Determine geographic distribution of subseafloor biomass
                    & respiration & their relationship to basic
                    oceanographic properties

Science Activities: (12 stations) with the following sequence of casts:
                    CTD
                    Gravity Core
                    Long Piston Core
                    Multi-Core
                    2nd Long Piston Core
                    Magnetometer tows

Operations Area:    Equatorial Pacific & North Pacific gyre
                    ~5000nm between stations (12)
                    Depth Range = 2700m to 5130m

Departure Port: Puntarenas, Costa Rica,

Agent:          Master R/V Ship Name
                Attn: Scientist's Name
                IN TRANSIT
                c/o Vasile Tudoran Transport
                819 Ohio Ave.
                Long Beach, CA 90804

                Contact: Vasile Tudoran
                Phone: (562) 882-5590
                Fax: (562) 434-9800
                Email: [1]vtudoran@aol.com
                Local Address for Large Shipments:
                SERMAR SA
                Aptdo 76
                Puntarenas, Costa Rica
                Attn: Carlos Aguilar
                Phone: 011-506-661-1529
                Fax: 011-506-661-2779

                Note: Agent and WHOI contacts should be copied on all
                communications. It is requested that shipment information of
                any equipment be communicated to the Agent and WHOI contacts

Arrival Port: Honolulu

Agent:        All packages / spare parts / mail , etc should be sent to the
              ship as follows:

              Master r/v KNORR
              C/O University of Hawaii Marine Center
              # 1 SAND ISLAND ACCESS ROAD
              HONOLULU , HAWAII 96819

              Contact: Mr. Keith Adams
              Purchasing Agent at University of Hawaii
              Phone: (808) 842 9811
              Fax:
              Email: [2]keitha@soest.hawaii.edu

SHIP
  Installed or Normally    12 kHz bathymetry system
  Carried Equipment:       3.5 kHz bathymetry system
                           ADCP - 75 KHz
                           ADCP - 150 KHz
                           Fume hood
                           Refrigerator
                           Deionized water system
                           Chest freezer
                           -70 deg freezer
                           MET sensors
                           Pinger for wire use
                           Seabeam
  WHOI-Provided Equipment: CTD/rosette system - transmissometer,
                           fluorometer, T, S, altimeter, O2
                           10-liter Niskin bottles
                           Magnetometer
                           Salinometer
                           XBT system
                           Gravity corer
                           Long Piston Corer
                           Box corer
                           Multi Corer
                           Rock dredge
                           2 refrigerator vans
                           WHOI Rad van
                           WHOI cold van
  Science Party-Provided   Cold Van (Broda)
  Equipment:               Chem van (URI)
  Notes:                   power needed for chemistry, radiotracer,
                           refrigeration vans

                           night time work anticipated

                           (2 Cold Vans requested by Jim Broda, will be put
                           aboard in Costa Rica and shipped back to WHOI
                           with mud samples from Hawaii) 10/15/08BD

JASON
  Installed or Normally Carried Equipment:
  Science Party-Provided Equipment:
  Notes:

Other Notes:
SSSG Tech:

Check List:          Required?          Comments
US Customs Form      Yes                Costa Rica
Diplomatic Clearance
Isotope Use Approval
SCUBA Diving

Last Modified: 12/11/2008

References

Visible links
1. mailto:vtudoran@aol.com
2. mailto:keitha@soest.hawaii.edu