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Cruise Results : NOAA Fisheries Research Vessel Delaware II, Cruise No. DE 09-09, Ecosystems Monitoring Survey and NASA Ground Truth Measurements
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2009
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Description:The cruise period was 17 to 29 August 2009. The original cruise plan called for 17 August to 3 September, but 4 days were removed for repairs to the ship’s heating system. An additional day was lost at the end of the cruise due to Tropical Storm Danny. The NOAA fisheries research vessel Delaware II sampled at a total of 105 stations. Of these, 11 were located in the Gulf of Maine (GOM), 30 were located on Georges Bank (GB), 33 were in the Southern New England (SNE) area, and 31 were in the Mid-Atlantic Bight (MAB) region. This cruise was the first in a series of multiple-objective cruises that are going to be done in collaboration with NASA and Old Dominion University. As always, the primary objective of the cruise was to assess changing biological and physical properties that influence the sustainable productivity of the living marine resources of the northeast continental shelf ecosystem. Key parameters measured for the Ecosystem Monitoring Program included ichthyoplankton and zooplankton composition, abundance and distribution, plus water column temperature and salinity. However, we worked with our colleagues from NASA and Old Dominion University to enhance the application of ocean color remote sensing to coastal ecosystems by “ground truthing” SeaWiFS and MODIS-Aqua data with ship-based water column measurements. This field data was also used to derive region-independent ocean color algorithms for primary productivity, particulate organic carbon and dissolved organic carbon.
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