East Pacific Rise — Current Experiment Coordination — Responses [ISS]

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1. PI-Project Information

Name: Daniel Fornari and S. Adam Soule
Institution: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Email address: dfornari@whoi.edu, ssoule@whoi.edu
Project Title: Seafloor mapping of the EPR 9° 25'-55'N area
NSF-OCE number: OCE-0525863
Upcoming cruise ID and dates: NO FORMAL CRUISES - TOWCAM WORK CURRENTLY IS DONE ON AN ANCILLARY BASIS ON CRUISES WHERE NIGHT SURVEY TIME IS AVAILABLE

2. Planned Sampling Requirements

2.1. Types of Samples:

TowCam rock core samples may be taken along traverses. We will not do this over any areas where experiments are deployed or plan to be deployed.

2.2. Type of Sample Locality:

TowCam rock cores would be done over exposed lava terrains.

2.3. Seafloor Collection Devices to be Used:

TowCam rock core samples - see 2.1 above.

2.4. Seafloor Experiments to be Deployed:

NONE

3. Planned Duration of Seafloor Experiments:

NONE

4. Constraints on Your Deployment Plans:

NONE

5. Other Issues?

TowCam operations, which involve traversing the seafloor at 5-7 m altitude, will be done away from areas where there are moorings or other obstacles in the water column.