SURVEY/PROCESS WORKGROUP

General Survey/Process Cruise Plans for EEGLE Project (TENTATIVE)

Blocked out Dates	Ship	Objectives	No of Science Days	No of Scientific Personnel
Year 1 (1998)
Feb 1-14	Lake Guardian	Pre-plume: survey, test experimental procedure, platform familiarization	7	5
Mar 1 - Apr 15	Laurentian	Plume Event: survey, process studies, and lagrangian studies	21	8
October	Laurentian	monitoring studies, Meroplankton sediment collection	6	4
November	Laurentian	monitoring studies	2	2
December	Laurentian	monitoring studies	2	2
Years 2 & 3 (1999-2000)
Feb 1 - Feb 15	Need a larger oceanographic ship from UNOLS or NOAA (including option of NOAA subsidizing the EPA RV Lake Guardian--must be requested	Pre-plume: Survey and limited Process Studies	8	8-10
Mar 15 - Apr 15	Need a larger oceanographic ship from UNOLS or NOAA--must be requested	Plume Event: Survey, Process Studies, and Lagrangian Studies	21	10-14
May 15 - Jun 15	Need a larger oceanographic ship from UNOLS or NOAA--must be requested	Post Plume Event: Survey, Process Studies, and Lagrangian Studies	21	10-14
Aug 1 - 31	Need a larger oceanographic ship from UNOLS or NOAA--must be requested	Summer Contrast: Survey, Process Studies, and Lagrangian Studies	21	10-14

For each of the other 8 months not listed above, a smaller ship (possibly the Laurentian) is needed to handle monitoring studies at GLERL 45m and 110m stations and Station A in the moored array box. Each cruise would require 2 days and 2 scientific personnel.

Notes: These are tentative cruise plans and may change to better meet program and scientific objectives. These plans were developed by PI's from the proposals of Fahnenstiel et al., Cotner et al., Vanderploeg et al., and Gardner et al. but have also been reviewed and revised by Brian Eadie to include the needs of PI's from the sediment resuspension and transport proposals. Additional transit days required to bring ships into or out of desired ports of origin have NOT been figured into number of science days.

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