CRUISE PLAN/ PROSPECTUS
During the Melville transit leg in April, Nan Bray would like to conduct
the following work in Australian waters:
1: Recover and re-deploy a shallow pressure gauge at Ashmore reef. The
permit to deploy and maintain the sensor was issued last year by the
Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service. This work will require
divers to locate the sensor, recover the instrument from inside the
anchor, and replace it. We do not plan to move the anchor. In the event
that we cannot locate the original anchor, we would like to deploy
another anchor near the original location. We will have the equipment
that we need (spare anchor and flotation) to do that deployment if
necessary. The liason for this work at ANPWS is Des Pike. He may want
us to deploy the anchor in a different location. I will let you know if
that is the case.
2. Run the underway ADCP and MET data systems 24 hours a day while transiting
through Australian waters.
This work is in support of NSF and ONR grants to study the Indonesian
Throughflow. We will of course be happy to provide the Australian
government with copies of the data as it becomes available. Australian
colleagues involved in related work are Dr. Gary Meyers and Dr. George
Cresswell at CSIRO Division of Oceanography, Hobart, and Dr. Miles
Furnas, AIMS, Townsville.
NSF Ship time request form, Cruise participant forms, and Dive plan
is forthcoming.
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Thomas S. Moore II tmoore@coast.ucsd.edu
Center for Coastal Studies
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
UCSD
La Jolla, CA 92093
(619)534-8688
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