RV Atlantic Explorer AE1409
Cruise plan
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Atlantic Explorer (33H4) |
| Cruise identifier | AE1409 |
| Cruise period | 2014-05-08 — 2014-05-31 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Unknown, Bermuda |
| Port of return | Unknown, Barbados |
| Objectives | Dissolved Phosphorus Processing by Trichodesmium Consortia: quantitative partitioning, role of microbial coordination, and impact on nitrogen fixation. The goal of the cruise is to sample colonies of the nitrogen fixing cyanobacterium Trichodesmium. To do this we will occupy stations across the western subtropical and tropical North Atlantic. We will take samples by net tow and CTD. The samples we collected will be used in on-deck incubations experiments, and subjected to on-board chemical analysis. |
| Chief scientist | Benjamin van Mooy (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry) |
| NPRC |  (0.06 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Caribbean Sea |
| Specific | Leeward and Windward Islands. Northeast coast of South America. |
| Track charts | (0.13 MB) |
