RV Roger Revelle RR2214 (GP17, OCE)
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Roger Revelle (33RR) |
| Cruise identifier | RR2214 (GP17, OCE) |
| Cruise period | 2022-12-01 — 2023-01-25 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Papeete, French Polynesia |
| Port of return | Punta Arenas, Chile |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | Objectives
1. Complete the meridional transect of the Pacific Ocean begun on GP15 (2018) 2. Characterize the external TEI fluxes to the Southern Pacific Ocean and Southern Ocean, including dust, sediment, hydrothermal, and cryospheric fluxes 3. Characterize the (micro)nutrient regimes that support observed gradients in productivity and community composition across the South Pacific gyre, ACC fronts, and Antarctic Zone 4. Determine TEI and macronutrient stoichiometries of the upwelling and subducting water masses that influence the global ocean at intermediate to abyssal depths 5. Capture deep Pacific Ocean inputs to the Drake Passage |
| Chief scientist | Benjamin S Twining (Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences), Gregory A Cutter (Old Dominion University Department of Ocean, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences), Jessica N Fitzsimmons (Texas A+M Department of Oceanography) |
| Project | GEOTRACES -Trace elements and their isotopes in the water column |
| Cruise report |  (2.34 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | South Pacific Ocean Southern Ocean |
| Specific | South Pacific and Southern Ocean (Amundsen Sea) |
| Track charts | (0.81 MB) |
