Deployment: OC449-03

2008-09-08 - 2008-09-18 Coastal transect between Cape Verde and Mauritanian coast, 17N/24.5W to 20N/17.3W Platform:R/V Oceanus (vessel)

Description

R/V Oceanus Voyage #449, Leg III was a Coastal transect between Cape Verde and the Mauritanian coast (17N/24.5W to 20N/17.3W). The main scientific objective was to test the hypothesis that the continental margin of northwest Africa provides a significant subsurface supply of iron to the open eastern tropical Atlantic.

The planned scientific activities include CTD casts, In Situ Water Pump casts for large volume water collection, Gravity Coring, and Aerosol sampling.

Scientific personnel:
Dr. Phoebe Lam, Chief Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Dr. Henrieta Dulaiova, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Mr. Steven Pike, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Mr. James Saenz, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Dr. Aron Stubbins, Old Dominion University
Ms. Hongmei Chen, Old Dominion University
Dr. Edward Michael Perdue, Georgia Institute of Technology
Mr. Nelson Green, Georgia Institute of Technology
Mr. Péricles Silva, Instituto Nacional de Desenvolvimento das Pescas (INDP)
Dr. Anibal Medina, Instituto Nacional de Desenvolvimento das Pescas (INDP)
Mr. Alexander Dorsk, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

WHOI cruise planning synopsis>

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

DatasetLatest Version DateCurrent State
Cruise Tracks from R/V Oceanus, R/V Islandia OC449-03, OC449-02,and ISL0109 in the Eastern Atlantic and Indian Oceans and TENATSO (Tropical Eastern North Atlantic Time-Series Observatory) station from 2008 to 2009 (SIRENA project)2011-05-04Preliminary and in progress
CTD profiles for OC449-03 from R/V Oceanus cruise OC449-03 in the Coastal transect between Cape Verde and Mauritanian coast from 2008 to 2008 (SIRENA project)2011-05-18Preliminary and in progress
Station log from R/V Islandia, R/V Oceanus ISL0109, OC449-02, OC449-03 in the Eastern Atlantic and Indian oceans and TENATSO (Tropical Eastern North Atlantic Time-Series Observatory) time series station from 2008 to 2009 (SIRENA project)2011-05-03Preliminary and in progress
Upcast profiles from Seacat CTD on MacLane pump from R/V Oceanus cruises OC449-02, and OC449-03 in the Eastern Atlantic and Indian Oceans in 2008 (SIRENA project)2011-05-09Preliminary and in progress
Downcast profiles from Seacat CTD on MacLane pump from R/V Oceanus OC449-02 and OC449-03 in the Eastern North Atlantic and Indian oceans in 2008 (SIRENA project)2011-05-09Preliminary and in progress
MIT vane measurements from R/V Oceanus cruise OC449-03 in the Coastal transect between Cape Verde and Mauritanian coast in 2008 (SIRENA project)2011-05-11Preliminary and in progress
McLane pumps summary from R/V Oceanus cruises OC449-02 and OC449-03 in the Eastern North Atlantic and Indian oceans in 2008 (SIRENA project)2011-05-23Preliminary and in progress
Averaged bottle measurements from CTD casts on R/V Oceanus cruise OC449-03 in the Coastal transect between Cape Verde and Mauritanian coast in 2008 (SIRENA project)2011-10-13Preliminary and in progress

Deployment Report

People

Chief Scientist: Phoebe J. Lam
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Co-Chief Scientist: Aron Stubbins
Old Dominion University

Synonyms

• SIRENA

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