RV Nathaniel B. Palmer NBP1409 (GPpr08, PHANTASTIC)
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Nathaniel B. Palmer (3206) |
| Cruise identifier | NBP1409 (GPpr08, PHANTASTIC) |
| Cruise period | 2014-10-26 — 2014-11-26 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Punta Arenas, Chile |
| Port of return | Punta Arenas, Chile |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | The PHANTASTIC program comprised two cruises in 2013-14 aiming to unravelling Phaeocystis antarctica adaptive responses in the Antarctic ecosystem. Both cruises were aboard the Research Vessel Nathaniel B.Palmer and complementary research projects focused on:
Bio-assay experiments of iron and light availability to phytoplankton Phytoplankton pigments and elemental composition Phytoplankton physiology Phytoplankton taxonomy by FlowCAM Trace Metals sampling and measurements in context of GEOTRACES Genetics of Phaeocystis Antarctica Small scale physical oceanography Dimethylsulfide dynamics Phytoplankton photoinhibition Cruise NBP-14-09 aboard RV Nathaniel B. Palmer covered five transects from the Long Term Ecosystems Research (LTER) grid of West Antarctic Peninsula region near the Palmer Station. The LTER grid has been occupied every year since 1990, but previous sampling and measurements for trace metals have been done only occasionally. Rob Middag was onboard doing direct shipboard measurements of dissolved Fe as well as multiple sampling activities for samples to be analyzed afterwards in the home laboratory. |
| Chief scientist | Anne-Carlijn Alderkamp (Stanford University, Geophysics Department) |
| Project | GEOTRACES -Trace elements and their isotopes in the water column |
| Cruise report |  (1.90 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Southern Ocean |
| Specific | West Antarctic Peninsula |
| Track charts | (0.13 MB) |
| Data held at BODC | |
| Discrete samples | |
| 45 |
