1997c

Cruise Description

The third of four seasonal cruises consisted of one river mile 53 12-hour series, four 30-hour (2 neap, 2 spring) channel contrast series, one (Baker) bay outwash 8-hour series, and four flood and two ebb ETM event high-resolution and depth stratum series.


Vessels

The R/V Robert Gordon Sproul, from Scripps Oceanographic Institute in San Diego, CA, was utilized for sedimentological, geochemical, microbial and ecological investigations.

Geophysical investigations in were conducted from the R/V Clifford Barnes, a research vessel from the University of Washington's School of Oceanography in Seattle, WA.


Coding explanation for sampling series:

Letter Code: U upstream; D downstream; N neap tide; S spring tide; E ebb; F flood
First Digit: Tidal Series
Second Digit: Sequence in Tidal Series

Example: U11 refers to the first sequence in the first upstream tidal series.


Sampling Series

Sampling Series Locations

Dates
U11
River Mile 53, Beaver Dock 10/06/1997 - 10/06/1997
D11
Hammond 10/07/1997 - 10/08/1997
N11
Buoy 39 10/09/1997 - 10/10/1997
N12
North Channel B 10/11/1997 - 10/12/1997
E11
Buoy 39 10/13/1997 - 10/13/1997
F11
Buoy 39 10/13/1997 - 10/13/1997
F12
Buoy 39 10/14/1997 - 10/14/1997
E12
North Channel B 10/14/1997 - 10/14/1997
F13
North Channel B 10/14/1997 - 10/14/1997
F14
North Channel B 10/15/1997 - 10/15/1997
E13
Sand Island Channel 10/15/1997 - 10/15/1997
S11
North Channel B 10/16/1997 - 10/17/1997
S12
Buoy 39 10/18/1997 - 10/19/1997