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Year

Month

Ship

Study Area

Summary of Operations
1984 . .  JDRF . 
1985 May

R/V Surveyor

(NOAA)

Gorda Ridge 14 vertical CTD casts
1985 June

R/V Surveyor

(NOAA)

JDFR --- Cleft

Endeavour

23 vertical CTD casts

7 CTD tows

2 Plankton Net tows

1986 August

R/V Discoverer

(NOAA)

JDFR --- Cleft

24 vertical CTD casts

10 CTD tows

1 Plankton Net tow

1987 September

R/V Discoverer

(NOAA)

JDFR --- Cleft

Axial

Middle Valley

18 vertical CTD casts

14 CTD tows

9 Camera/CTD tows

1988 . 

R/V Discoverer

(NOAA)

JDFR

? vertical casts

1 CTD tow

1988 July

R/V Discoverer

(NOAA)

JDFR --- Cleft 7 Camera/CTD tows
1988 August/September

R/V Discoverer

(NOAA)

JDFR --- Cleft

Vance

Axial

Cobb

Off-axis grid

58 vertical CTD casts

12 CTD tows

1989 July/August

R/V Discoverer

(NOAA)

JDFR --- Cleft

Cobb

Endeavour

63 vertical CTD casts

11 CTD tows

1989 September

R/V Discoverer

(NOAA)

JDFR --- Cleft

Vance

16 Camera/CTD tows
1990 July

R/V Discoverer

(NOAA)

JDFR --- Cleft

20 vertical CTD casts

4 CTD tows

7 Plankton Net tows

1990 September

R/V Discoverer

(NOAA)

JDFR --- Cleft

Off-axis grid

59 vertical CTD casts

8 CTD tows

1991 June

R/V Discoverer

(NOAA)

JDFR --- Cleft

Vance

Endeavour

Blanco

other

60 vertical casts

15 CTD tows

1991 August/September

R/V Atlantis II

(WHOI)

JDFR --- Cleft

16 ALVIN Dives

3 vertical CTD casts

5 CTD tows

"Buoyant Plume Experiment"

1991 November/December

R/V New Horizon

(SIO)

East Pacific Rise

(9-11 North)

38 vertical CTD casts

18 CTD tows

1992 May/June

R/V Discoverer

(NOAA)

JDFR --- Cleft

Off-axis grid

Outcrop sites

93 vertical CTD casts

15 CTD tows

1993 June

R/V Discoverer

(NOAA)

JDFR --- Cleft

35 vertical CTD casts

9 CTD tows

1993 July/August

R/V Discoverer

(NOAA)

JDFR --- CoAxial

(initial Response cruise)

6 vertical CTD casts

13 CTD tows

1993 August

R/V Discoverer

(NOAA)

JDFR --- Cleft

CoAxial

5 vertical CTD casts

5 CTD tows

1993 October

R/V Atlantis II

(WHOI)

JDFR --- CoAxial

2 vertical CTD casts

14 CTD tows

ALVIN dives

1993 November/December

R/V Melville

(SIO)

SEPR (13-19oS)

32 vertical CTD casts

7 CTD tows

1994 April

R/V Surveyor

(NOAA)

JDFR --- Cleft

18 vertical CTD casts

6 CTD tows

1994 June/July

R/V Atlantis II

(WHOI)

JDFR --- Cleft

CoAxial

12 vertical CTD casts

8 CTD tows

ALVIN dives

1994 July/August

R/V Discoverer

(NOAA)

JDFR --- Cleft

CoAxial

Outcrop sites

9 vertical CTD casts

19 CTD tows

1994 August/September

R/V Discoverer

(NOAA)

JDFR --- CoAxial 11 Camera/CTD tows
1994 September

R/V Discoverer

(NOAA)

JDFR --- Cleft

14 vertical CTD casts

3 CTD tows

1994 September

R/V Discoverer

(NOAA)

JDFR --- Off Axis 30 vertical CTD casts
1995 June

R/V Discoverer

(NOAA)

JDFR --- Blanco

Cleft

CoAxial

Endeavour

21 vertical CTD casts

15 CTD tows

1995 August

R/V Atlantis II

(WHOI)

JDFR --- Outcrop sites

16 vertical CTD casts

12 CTD tows

ALVIN dives

1996 March

R/V McArthur

(NOAA)

Gorda Ridge

(Event Response)

14 vertical CTD casts
1996 April

R/V Wecoma

(OSU)

Gorda Ridge

(Event Response)

12 vertical CTD casts

6 CTD tows

1996 June

R/V Discoverer

(NOAA)

Gorda Ridge

JDFR --- Cleft

CoAxial

13 vertical CTD casts

20 CTD tows

1997 September/October

R/V Ronald H Brown

(NOAA)

JDFR --- Cleft

Axial

Blanco

40 vertical CTD casts

9 CTD tows

1998 February

R/V Wecoma

(OSU)

JDFR --- Axial

(Event Response)

16 vertical CTD casts
1998 March/April

R/V Melville

(SIO)

SEPR (27-32oS)

34 vertical CTD casts

11 CTD Tows

6 AMS-120/MAPR tows

4 camera/MAPR tows

1998 July/August

R/V Ronald H Brown

(NOAA)

JDFR --- Cleft

Axial

 29 vertical CTD casts

21 CTD Tows

NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
WHOI Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
SIO Scripps Institution of Oceanography (University of California, San Diego)
OSU Oregon State University

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