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Page Submission Viewer: Form Draft Review	Healy - Cruise Planning Questionnaire
Submitted on November 04, 2006

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1. HEALY Cruise: HLY-06-03/Mayer/09Sep06-08Oct06

2. Cruise dates:
(Determined by the Cruise Number) Start: September 09, 2006 End:October 08, 2006

Chief Scientist Contact Information

3. Your Name: Larry Mayer

4. Affiliation: Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping UNH

5. Funding Agency: NOAA

6. Grant Number: NA05NOS4001153

7. Full Address: 24 Colovos Rd Durham New Hampshire 03824

8. Phone Number: 603 862.2615

9. Email Address: lmayer at ccom dot unh dot edu

10. Fax Number: 603 862.0839

Equipment Onload

11 Date and Time to Start Loading in Seattle: 9/9/06

12. Special Requirements for Loading or in-port logistics:
(eg single piece heavier than 5 Tons or a portable van) No

12b. If yes, Please list point of contact for in port logistics:

13. Cargo List:

No response

Additional File(s) Uploaded for Cargo List: 0

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14. Give a brief description of the area of operations and type of work to be done and science objective:

We will continue mapping on the Chukchi Cap in support of Law of the Sea. The requirements are multibeam sonar coverage as well as 3.5 kHz subbottom profiling. Our objectives will be to map a small bit of the 2500 m contour that we were unable to complete in 2004 (at about 78.5 N) and then zig-zag across the slope in order to locate the foot of the slope as defined by UNCLOS Article 76.

Operational Plan Description

15. Operational plan: Cruise Tracks and Station Locations. Please provide as complete a description as possible. Include with this plan, or separately, a complete list of stations with ID, Latitude, Longitude, depth and other information such as type of sampling/operations as appropriate. Use the text box below or upload separate documents as needed.

15a. Upload a cruise track file (jpeg, pdf, gif, etc) here (required):

Cruise Track Uploaded: HEALY2006_trackplan_20051215.jpg

15b. Upload additional files as needed:

Additional File(s) Uploaded for Operational Plan: 0

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Operational Plan Description

We will leave Barrow and proceed NW paralleling our earlier cruise tracks so as to build up a broader base map of the region. At the transition between the deep basin and the Chukchi Cap (WP005) we will do a patch test for the multibeam sonar which involves several reciprocal tracks up and down the slope as well as several orthogonal lines along the base of the slope. Upon completion of the patch test, we will continue NW to the 2500 m contour identified in the 2003 survey and then begin a series of zig zags that attempt to identify the foot of the continental slope as defined by the UNCLOS (the point of maximum change in gradient coming from the seaward direction). At this point we will be in a true exploration mode and will modify our tracks based on seafloor morphology and ice conditions. We are attempting to do our furthest north sites earlier in the cruise. We will progress as far as we can get along the margin until it is time to head back to Barrow - we will attempt to parallel one of our earlier transit lines on the way back. A backup area will be defined off the Barrow margin should ice prevent operations on the Chukchi margin.

Will the vessel be operating within 200 miles of a foreign country?   No

16. Will you be contacting Native communities to inform them of your intended icebreaker research activities?  No

17. Will Marine Mammal Protection Act, NEPA or Endangered Species Act consultation or permitting be required?  No

18a. Cruise Plan and Description of Operations:
Provide as much detail as possible about the type of operations and sampling to be conducted, daily schedule and hours of operation, type of equipment to be used and any other information that will help us prepare for this cruise. Use additional pages or send corrected drafts as necessary. If this is a multi-investigator cruise, please include a list of Co-PI's who will be submitting operational science plans:

The basic operation is underway mapping of the seafloor morphology in order to define the location of the 2500 m contour and the foot of the continental slope as defined by the UN for Law of the Sea purposes. The key instruments are the Seabeam multibeam echosounder and the 3.5 kHz subbottom profiler. We expect that these operations will be continuous for the duration of the cruise. To support these operations we will need to have regularly scheduled XBT (or XSV) launches (typically one every 12 hours or more frequently if problems with the sonar are encountered) as well as an occassional CTD station to calibrate the expendible probes. The most difficult aspect of this work is the fact that we dont know exactly where the features we are trying to map are (if we did we wouldnt have to map them) thus there is a delicate balance between track planning, trying to follow features in real-time and the ability to make progress in a desired direction due to ice conditions. We have, in the past depended on a monitor in the aloft con that allowed us to point the helmsman to a desired target.

18b. Upload additional files as needed:

Additional File(s) Uploaded for Description of Operation: 0

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19. If your cruise involves any of the following, please check below:
(Items marked * Require advance approval.)

Items
Check

Multiple PI or Institution Cruise: No

24 hour science operations (Night Work?): Yes

Personnel Deployed on Ice: No

Hazardous Materials: No

Radioactive Isotopes: No *

Stable Isotopes: No *

Gasoline to run science equipment: No

Explosive Devices: No

Fire Arms: No *

Flammable Gases: No

Portable air compressors: No
     If yes, please indicate the power requirements:

19a. Ancillary Programs

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20. Diving Operations:   No

Number of Dives:

Purpose:

Will members of the science party be diving:

Are you requesting USCG diver support:

21. Small Boat Operations:   No

Use of science party small boats: No

Use of USCG small boats: No

Number of deployments expected:

Purpose:

Range in miles from the ship:

Payload size and weight:

Gasoline for science equipment:

22. Helicopter Operations:   Yes

Passenger Transports: Yes

Cargo Transports: No

Payload size and weight: No response

Maximum hours/flight: No response

Average hours/day: No response

Number of flights: No response

Total flight hours: No response

Installation of sensors on Helicopter: No

Describe flight operations: personnel transfers and may be necessary for ice reconnaissance

Range in miles from the ship: No response

Average track miles for each sortie: No response

23. Deployment or Recovery of Moorings:   No

Provide the Lat/Long/Depth of each mooring:

Mooring Worksheet:
Number of Moorings to deploy:

Number of Moorings to recover:

Min Depth:

Max Depth:

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24. Total Number of People in Your Party
(include NSF provided support personnel such as LDEO and Scripps; do not include helicopter personnel): 18

25. Current Crew List Download XLS file (HEALY_0603_crewlist.xls)

Last Name First Name Institution Position Phone/Email Sex Date On Date Off Foreign Nat. Nationality

1 Larry Mayer CCOM Univ of New Hamphire Ch. Scientist 603 862-2615
lmayer at ccom dot unh dot edu M Sept 9 2006 Oct 8 2006 No USA

2 Andy Armstrong NOAA 2nd Scientist 603 862-4559
andy dot armstrong at noaa dot gov M Sept 9 2006 Oct 8 2006 No USA

3 Brian Calder CCOM Univ of New Hamphire Scientist 603 862-0526
brc at ccom dot unh dot edu M Sept 9 2006 Oct 8 2006 Yes UK

4 Jim Case CCOM Univ of New Hamphire Scientist 603 862-2709
casej at ccom dot unh dot edu M Sept 9 2006 Oct 8 2006 No USA

5 Luciano Fonseca CCOM Univ of New Hamphire Scientist 603 862-1862
luciano at ccom dot unh dot edu F Sept 9 2006 Oct 8 2006 Yes Brazil

6 James Gardner CCOM Univ of New Hamphire Scientist 603 862-2709
jim at ccom dot unh dot edu M Sept 9 2006 Oct 8 2006 No USA

7 Gretchen Imahori CCOM Univ of New Hamphire/NOAA Grad Student 603 862-0564
gretchen at ccom dot unh dot edu M Sept 9 2006 Oct 8 2006 No USA

8 Glen McGillicutty CCOM Univ of New Hamphire Technical Support 603 862-0564
glennm at ccom dot unh dot edu M Sept 9 2006 Oct 8 2006 No USA

9 Shachak Peeri CCOM Univ of New Hamphire Scientist 603 862-1892
shachak at ccom dot unh dot edu M Sept 9 2006 Oct 8 2006 Yes Israel

10 Lorraine Robidoux CCOM Univ of New Hamphire/NOAA Grad Student 603 862-0564
lrobidoux at ccom dot unh dot edu F Sept 9 2006 Oct 8 2006 No USA

11 Val Schmidt CCOM Univ of New Hamphire Grad Student 603 862-0564
vschmidt at ccom dot unh dot edu M Sept 9 2006 Oct 8 2006 No USA

12 Ben Smith CCOM Univ of New Hamphire Technical Support 60-3 862-0564
ben at ccom dot unh dot edu M Sept 9 2006 Oct 8 2006 No USA

13 Robert Smith State Dept Scientist 202 647-5123
dr_rwsmith at yahoo dot com M Sept 9 2006 Oct 8 2006 No USA

14 Ed Sweeney CCOM Univ of New Hamphire Grad Student 603 862-0564
esweeney at ccom dot unh dot edu M Sept 9 2006 Oct 8 2006 No USA

15 Sandy Shor NSF Scientist 703 292-7711
ashor at nsf dot gov M Sept 9 2006 Oct 8 2006 No USA

16 John Hall CCOM Univ of New Hamphire Scientist TBD
jkh1 at 012 dot net dot il M Sept 9 2006 Oct 8 2006 No USA

17 Andreas Muenchow CMS Univ of Deleware Scientist 302 831-0742
muenchow at udel dot edu M Sept 9 2006 Oct 8 2006 No USA

18 Tom Hall UCSF School of Medicine Scientist 415/731-7944
thall at epi dot ucsf dot edu M Sept 9 2006 Oct 8 2006 No USA

25a.Dietary Requirements:

Vegetarian 0

Vegan 0

No Red Meat 0

Low Fat 0

Comments:

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26. Please check (X) by equipment needed. If you have questions, or need assistance, please call or email the Marine Science Department or at 206-217-6300. There are two trawl core winches and two oceanographic winches. Healy has spare drums with cable for the oceanographic winches which can only be changed in port.

	Cables	Instrument(s)	Instrument Wts	Max Depth	A Frame
[x]	.322"conducting cable (12k meters)	CTD	No response	No response	[ ]AFT [x]STBD
[ ]	3/8" steel cable (10k meters)				[ ]AFT [ ]STBD
[ ]	.680 coax conducting cable (12k meters)				[ ]AFT [ ]STBD
[ ]	9/16" steel cable (14k meters)				[ ]AFT [ ]STBD
[ ]	1/4" steel cable (14k meters)				[ ]AFT [ ]STBD
[ ]	Spare .322 conducting cable (12k meters on spare drum)				[ ]AFT [ ]STBD
[ ]	SeaMac portable winch-Instrument				[ ]AFT [ ]STBD

Will you be bringing your own winch and wire? No

Describe use, size, and weight & power requirements below:

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27. Crane requirements:

Anticipated use

[ ] Port Side Fantail Crane (Safe Working Load: 5 tons)

[ ] Starboard Side Fantail Crane (Safe Working Load: 15 tons)

[ ] 04 Deck Cranes (Safe Working Load: 15 tons)

[ ] Forecastle Crane (Safe Working Load: 3 tons)

Describe other lifting requirements here: (cranes have limited reach please consult the crane descriptions)
No response

28. Deckspace Requirements:

[ ]Vans [ ] Incubators [ ] Storage

Total Number

Type/Size

Location

Water Req

Seawater Req

Power Req

Describe all other Deckspace requirements here:
No response

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29. Science Equipment and Lab Configuration:

CTD - SIO support
Click here for Healy Station keeping parameters

[x] SeaBird 911 + CTD
Use:Occasional
Depth -     Min(m):No response     Max(m):4000
Approximate Number of casts planned:   6-8

[ ] Redundant Temperature Sensors [x] Redundant Conductivity Sensors

[ ] O2 Sensor, SBE43 [ ] Wet Labs Transmissometer, CST-DR

[ ] Chelsea Fluorometer, MKIII, Chlorophyll-a [ ] Altimeter

[ ] WetLabs Fluorometer, ECO Chlorophyll, FLTRD

[ ] 24-place rosette with 12 Liter internal spring Niskin bottles [ ] 12-place rosette with 30 Liter internal spring Niskin bottles

[ ] Biospherical QSP2300 PAR sensor O-Ring type:
[ ] Silicone    [ ] Nitrile Buna-N    [ ] VITON

Expendable Oceanographic Probes (User supplied)
[ ] Hull mounted launcher
[x] Hand launcher

Number of Launches:  90-100

What probes will you be launching? (checked below)

[x]XCTD      [x]XBT      [x]Other:  XSV

Science Seawater
Science Seawater - SIO Support

[ ] AutoSal Salinometer
Use: [x] Seabird 45 Thermosalinograph
Use:Continuous

[ ] Seapoint SCF fluorometer
Use: [ ] Seabird SBE43 oxygen sensor
Use:

[ ] Turner SCUFA fluorometer
Use: [ ] Omega Flow meter
Use:

Incubator Seawater

[ ] Incubator ambient temperature seawater Flow volume (liters/minute):

Please indicate other seawater requirements:
No response

Acoustics
[x] Kongsberg EM122 1°x2° Bottom Mapping Echosounder (Science Party supplies operator)
Use:Dedicated [x] RDI OS150 ADCP (Science Party supplies operator)
Use:Occasional

[x] RDI OS75 ADCP (Science Party supplies operator)
Use:Occasional [ ]  Knudsen 320B/R Echosounder
Use:

[x] Benthos pingers
Use:Occasional

Please indicate other comments regarding acoustics:
No response

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30. Science Equipment and Lab Configuration: (Cont.)

Lab Equipment
[ ] DI Water (18 Mega Ohm) liters/day required:	[ ] -80 °C freezers (2 @ 12 cu ft each) Use:
[ ] Fume Hood (3 available) Use:	[ ] Climate Control Chambers 10x9x6' (2) Use:
[ ] Walk in Freezer/Reefer two @ 13x8x6' Use:	[ ] Clean/UPS Power (120v, 60Hz, Type 1)
[ ] Any Power Sensitive Equipment that you are concerned about Please provide description: No response	[ ] Bell BGM-3 underway marine gravimeters (2)

Meteorological
[ ] RM Young 85004 Ultrasonic Wind Sensors	[ ] Paroscienctific MET3A Temperature, Humidity, Pressure
[ ] RM Young 50202 Precipitation guage	[ ] Eppley infrared Radiometer Modle PIR
[ ] Eppley Spectral Pyranometer Model PSP	[ ] Terascan Weather Satellite System
[ ] Biospherical QSR-2200 PAR sensor

Communications
[x] Email Bytes/Day To Ship: No responseFrom Ship: No response	[ ] Iridium Phone Mins per day:
[x] Data/FTP Bytes/Day To Ship: No responseFrom Ship: No response	[ ] INMARSAT Phone Mins per day:
[ ] High latitude satellite connectivity (>73 N) Bytes/Day from the ship:
Explain other communications concerns and requirements: No exceptional communications requirements -- standard email and ftp for updates and report transmission

Coring
[ ] Jumbo Piston Coring Use: Number of cores: Minimum depth: Maximum depth:	[ ] Gravity Core Use: Number of cores: Minimum depth: Maximum depth: Maximum core length:
[ ] Multicore [ ] User provided coring equipment Please provide description: No response