FS Sonne SO202 (GPc01, INOPEX)
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FS Sonne (06BE) |
| Cruise identifier | SO202 (GPc01, INOPEX) |
| Cruise period | 2009-07-08 — 2009-08-28 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Tomakomai, Japan |
| Port of return | Pusan, Korea, Republic of |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | The cruise SO202-INOPEX is central to the interdisciplinary Innovative North Pacific Experiment (INOPEX), funded by the German Ministry of Education and Science and led and coordinated by scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in Bremerhaven. INOPEX amalgamates national and international expertise in the application of modern biogeochemical and paleoceanographic, as well as dating methods to produce a major step towards a more substantial understanding of past climate processes involving the ocean and atmosphere as well as continental ice (during glacial periods) in the polar North Pacific realm. |
| Chief scientist | Rainer Gersonde (Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research) |
| Project | GEOTRACES -Trace elements and their isotopes in the water column |
| Cruise report |  (217.34 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Pacific Ocean Bering Sea |
| Specific | Subpolar North Pacific and Bering Sea |
| Track charts | (0.06 MB) |
| Data held at BODC | |
| Discrete samples | |
| 7 CTD frame plus rosette sampler | Radioactivity in water bodies |