XV\. Oceanography- Government

Section XV of the Modifications of Activities Planned for 2003-2004
presents final information regarding United States Antarctic Program
sponsored oceanographic expeditions during the 2003-2004 season.

1.  For actual tracks of the Research Vessels *Nathaniel B. Palmer* and
    Laurence *M. Gould* please see Attachment C, Cruise Tracks.

# *R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer*

The *R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer* made ten science cruises during the period
of 30 March 2003 through 31 March 2004. Cruises are:

**Cruise NBP03-04**

23 May -- 11 June 2003 Northbound transit to Alaska

*Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic Reconstructions of the Southwest Pacific*

GO-071-O (Steve Cande/Joann Stock)

**Cruise NBP03-04A**\
05 July -- 18 August 2003 Arctic Cruise

*Western Arctic Shelf-Basin Interaction*

O-287-N 7 (Jim Swift)

**Cruise NBP03-04B**

22 August -- 08 September 2003 Southbound Transit to HI

*Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic Reconstructions of the Southwest Pacific*

GO-071-O (Steve Cande/Joann Stock)

*Production Observation Through Another Translatitudinal Oceanic
Expedition* (POTATOE)

B-200-N (Wade Jeffrey)

**Cruise NBP03-04C**

> 14 September -- 08 October 2003

*Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic Reconstructions of the Southwest Pacific*

> GO-071-O (Steve Cande/Joann Stock)

*Production Observation Through Another Translatitudinal Oceanic
Expedition* (POTATOE)

> B-200-N (Wade Jeffrey)

**Cruise NBP03-04D**

09 October -- 14 October 2003\
*Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic Reconstructions of the Southwest Pacific*

> GO-071-O (Steve Cande/Joann Stock)

*Production Observation Through Another Translatitudinal Oceanic
Expedition* (POTATOE)

> B-200-N (Wade Jeffrey)
>
> **Cruise NBP03-05**
>
> 27 October -- 19 November 2003 (Aborted due to major engine failures
> on 03 November)
>
> *Interactive Effects of UV Radiation and Vertical Mixing on
> Phytoplankton and Bacterioplankton in the Ross Sea*
>
> B-203-N (Pat Neale)
>
> 23 November -- 12 December 2003
>
> Vessel off hire for main engine repairs
>
> **Cruise NBP03-05A**
>
> 18 December 2003 -- 01 January 2004
>
> *Interannual Variability in the Antarctic-Ross Sea (IVARS): Nutrients
> and Seasonal Production*
>
> B-047-N (Walker Smith)
>
> **Cruise NBP03-06**

05 January -- 17 January 2004

Collaborative Research: *Antarctic Cretaceous-Cenozoic Climate,
Glaciation, and Tectonics: Site surveys for drilling from the edge of
the Ross Ice Shelf*

GO-152-N (Lou Bartek/Bruce Luyendyk)

**Cruise NBP04-01**

19 January -- 18 February 2004

*Neotectonic Structure of Terror Rift, Western Ross Sea*

G-099-N (Larry Lawver/Terry Wilson)

**Cruise NBP04-02**

23 February -- 10 April 2004

ANSLOPE III Collaborative Research: *Cross-Slope Exchanges at the
Antarctic Slope Front*

O-215-N (Arnold Gordon)

## Biology & Medicine

  ---------------------- ------------ ------------------------------------
  Principal Investigator Event        Institution

  Jeffrey                B-200-N      University of West Florida

  Neal                   B-203-N      Smithsonian Institution
  ---------------------- ------------ ------------------------------------

## Oceans and Climate

  ----------------------- ----------- -----------------------------------
  Principal Investigator  Event       Institution

  Swift                   O-287-N     Scripps Institution of
                                      Oceanography.

  Gordon                  O-215-N     Columbia University, LDEO
  ----------------------- ----------- -----------------------------------

## Geology & Geophysics

  ----------------------- ----------- -----------------------------------
  Principal Investigator  Event       Institution

  Stock                   G-071-0     California Institute of Technology

  Luyendyk                G-152-N     University of California, Santa
                                      Barbara

  Wilson                  G-099-N     Ohio State University
  ----------------------- ----------- -----------------------------------

# *R/V Laurence M. Gould*

The *R/V Laurence M. Gould* made twelve science cruises and passenger
transports to the Antarctic Peninsula during the period of 31 March 2003
through 1 April 2004.

**Cruise LMG03-04**

05 April -- 07 May 2003

*Structure, function and expression of tbuulins, globins, and
microtubule-dependent motors from cold-adapted Antarctic fishes*

B-037-L (Bill Detrich)

*Cold body temperature as an evolutionary shaping force in the
physiology of Antarctic fishes*

B-036-L (Bruce Sidell)

*CTD operations and mooring recovery*

Science of Opportunity (Martin Visbeck)

**Cruise LMG03-04A**

10 May- 05 June 2003

*Structure, function and expression of tbuulins, globins, and
microtubule-dependent motors from cold-adapted Antarctic fishes*

B-037-L (Bill Detrich)

*Cold body temperature as an evolutionary shaping force in the
physiology of Antarctic fishes*

B-036-L (Bruce Sidell)

**Cruise LMG03-05**

16 June - 28 June 2003

Palmer Station Shuttle

29 June -- 15 August 2003

Maintenance Period at Punta Arenas, Chile

**Cruise LMG03-05A**

16 August -- 03 September 2003

Palmer Station Shuttle

*Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR) Sea Ice Validation during
the L.M. GOULD Traverse to Antarctica*

O-309-L (Konrad Steffen)

**Open Period for Maintenance**

07 -- 20 September 2003

**Cruise LMG03-06**

22 September -- 05 October 2003

Palmer Station Shuttle

**Cruise LMG03-07**

10 October - 23 October 2003

Palmer Station Shuttle, COPA Field Camp put-in

**Cruise LMG03-07A**

23 October - 06 November 2003

Open Period

**Cruise LMG03-08**

07 November -- 19 November 2003

*Dynamic Similarity or Size Proportionality: Adaptations of a Polar
Copepod*

B-285-L (Jeanette Yen)

*Long-Term Data Collection at Select Antarctic Peninsula Visitor Sites*

B-086-E (Ronald Naveen)

**Cruise LMG03-09**

23 November -- 29 December 2003

*Global Climate Change and the Evolutionary Ecology of Antarctic
Mollusks in the Late Eocene*

G-065-E (Daniel Blake)

*Evolution and Biogeography of Late Cretaceous Vertebrates from the
James Ross Basin, Antarctic Peninsula*

G-061-E (Judd Case)

*Dynamics of Predator-Prey Behavior in the Antarctic Ocean*

B-023-L (Richard Veit)

**Cruise LMG04-01**

12 February -- 24 March 2004

*Long-Term Ecological Research on the Antarctic Marine Ecosystem: An
Ice-Dominated Environment (LTER)*

BP-013-O ( Bill Fraser)

BP-016-O (Maria Vernet)

BP-021-O (Doug Martinson)

BP-028-O (Langdon Quetin, Robin Ross)

BP-032-O (Ray Smith)

BP-045-O (Hugh Ducklow)

**Cruise LMG04-02**

12 February - 24 March 2004

*Plankton community structure and iron distribution in the southern
Drake Passage*

B-228-L (Greg Mitchell)

B-248-L (Meng Zhou)

B-225-L (Christopher Measures)

**Cruise LMG04-03**

28 March -- 12 April 2004

*Mysticete whale acoustic census in the GLOBEC west Antarctic project
area*

B-239-L (John Hildebrand)

## Biology & Medicine

  ----------------------- ----------- -----------------------------------
  Principal Investigator  I.D. No.    Institution

  Detrich                 B-037-L     Northeastern University

  Siddell                 B-036-L     University of Maine

  Yen                     B-285-E/L   Georgia Institute of Technology

  Naveen                  B-086-E     Oceanites Inc., Chevy Chase,
                                      Maryland

  Veit                    B-023-L     City University of New York

  Fraser                  B-013-L/P   Polar Oceans Research Group

  Vernet                  B-016-L/P   Scripps Institution of Oceanography

  Martinson               B-021-L     Columbia University, LDEO

  Quetin/Ross             B-028-L/P   University of California, Santa
                                      Barbara

  Smith                   B-032-L/P   University of California, Santa
                                      Barbara

  Ducklow                 B-045-L/P   VIMS, The College of William and
                                      Mary

  Mitchell                B-228-L     University of Hawaii, Manoa

  Zhou                    B-248-L     University of Massachusetts

  Measures                B-225-L     University of Hawaii, Manoa

  Hildebrand              B-239-L     Scripps Institution of Oceanography
  ----------------------- ----------- -----------------------------------

## Geology and Geophysics

  ----------------------- ----------- -----------------------------------
  **Principal             I.D. No.    Institution
  Investigator**                      

  Blake                   G-065-E     University of Illinois, Urbana

  Case                    G-061-E     St. Mary's College of California
  ----------------------- ----------- -----------------------------------

## Ocean & Climate

  ----------------------- ----------- -----------------------------------
  **Principal             I.D. No.    Institution
  Investigator**                      

  Steffen                 O-309-L     University of Colorado, Boulder
  ----------------------- ----------- -----------------------------------