RV Nathaniel B. Palmer NBP1103
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Nathaniel B. Palmer (3206) |
| Cruise identifier | NBP1103 |
| Cruise period | 2013-05-09 — 2013-06-11 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Punta Arenas, Chile |
| Port of return | Punta Arenas, Chile |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | Historic perspectives on climate and biogeography from deep-sea corals in the Drake Passage. The two principal investigators were Laura Robinson (Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institution and Rhian Waller (University of Maine). The science party consisted of 19 NSF grantees, 11 RPSC support staff and an Argentine observer. The science aims of the project included a combined study of the past and present biogeography of cold water corals in the Drake Passage, investigations into their major controls and paleoclimate reconstruction using skeletal remains. As such the cruise was designed to image and collect samples from coral habitats and their environments stretching from the continental Shelf of South America, across fracture zones and seamounts in the Drake Passage and down to the West Antarctic Peninsula. |
| Chief scientist | Laura F Robinson (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry), Rhian Waller (University of Maine School of Marine Sciences) |
| Cruise report |  (7.68 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | South West Atlantic Ocean (limit 20W) Southern Ocean |
| Specific | Burdwood Bank, Shackleton Fracture Zone, West Antarctic Peninsula, Interim Seamount, Sars Seamount, Cape Horn. |
| Track charts | (0.24 MB) |
