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Cruise report for 'Patterns in Deep-Sea Corals' Expedition 2016, NOAA ship Shearwater SW-16-08
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2017
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Description:"The 2016 'Patterns in Deep-Sea Corals' expedition set out aboard the NOAA Ship Shearwater in August to study the distribution, ecology, and health of deep-water (30-300 m) gorgonian corals in response to the 2015 El Niño event. The research team consisted of staff from NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) and Marine Applied Research and Education (MARE; Table 1). The study used the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Beagle to recover previously deployed temperature loggers (Caldow et al. 2015) and to conduct video transects for the purpose of density estimation and health assessments. The primary scientific objectives of the expedition were to: 1) recover temperature loggers that were deployed in the spring and fall of 2015 in order to assess temperature anomalies; 2) characterize deepsea coral ecosystems in newly mapped areas of the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary (CINMS) (Figures 1-4); and 3) collect live Acanthogorgia sp. corals for laboratory studies on temperature"--Expedition overview. [doi:10.7289/V5/TM-NOS-NCCOS-233 (https://doi.org/10.7289/V5/TM-NOS-NCCOS-233)]
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