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Deployment: OC461

Deployment: 
OC461
Chief Scientist: 
Joan M. Bernhard (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI)
Synonyms: 
Platform:
 R/V Oceanus
Platform Type:
 vessel
Start Date: 
2010-05-13
End Date: 
2010-05-17
Location: 
South of Martha's Vineyard, MA, USA to 39 31.7N, 70 33.1W
Description

OC461 is the second cruise for the Dispersal and Life History Dynamics of Benthic Foraminifera project. The anticipated science activities included water collection at depth using the CTD/Rosette system and coring (Soutar Boxcore and MC800 multicore) for collection of live benthic foraminifera. 

The cruise was funded by NSF OCE ARRA award # 0850494.

Cruise information and original data are available from the NSF R2R data catalog.