Globec Mesoscale II cruise July 27 to August 12, 2000

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OSU R/V Wecoma on duties during the Mesoscale-II cruise

Some of the Biologist staff of the Mesoscale-II cruise on board of the R/V New Horizon (Scripps) that worked along the northern California and Oregon coast. In the picture we are (left to right) Se-Jong, Karen Haberman, Jaime Gomez, Andrew King, William Peterson (chief's cruise), Rob Campbell, Anders Roestad, Leah Feinberg, Jay Peterson, and Julie Keister.

During the oceanographic survey we did these activities * CTD cast & sampling with Niskin bottles * Clorophyll filtrations * Nutrients * Zooplakton samples:              Vertical tows small net              10-40 m depth horizontal tows with large              net to get alive euphausiids and copepods * MOCNESS (Nine levels) * Live experiments with the euphausiids Euphausia pacifica and Thysanoessa spinifera:               * Molting rates experiments               * Growth rates               * Egg production rates

The team getting the chlorophyll and the nutrient samples from the rossette.

Julie taking a "confortable" nap after a hard station around 4:00 am

Our research project for the next year....watching the euphausiids using our yellow submarine.

Everybody working with the beloved MOCNESS.

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