GN01 - Arctic Section

Overview

The U.S. GEOTRACES cruise (HLY1502; GN01 section) aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter HEALY took place in the Arctic Ocean. The ship departed Dutch Harbor, Alaska on 09 August, 2015 and arrived at the same port, on 12 October, 2015, being the first solo U.S. surface ship to reach the North Pole. The Chief Scientist was Dr. David Kadko (FIU) and the Co-Chief Scientist Dr. William Landing (FSU).

GN01 Group Picture. The crew of U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy and the GEOTRACES science team at the North Pole. Photo: U.S. Coast Guard

Additional information can be found in the Cruise Information and Datasets Section below.

GN01 Cruise Track

         Dates: 8 - 10 June 2009

         Location: Hanse Institute for Advanced Study, Delmenhorst, Germany

         Download the meeting agenda, logistical information and the workshop report. Links to lectures and meeting presentations.

         Dates: 29 September - 1 October 2010

         Location: National Science Foundation (NSF), Washington, D.C., U.S.

         Download the meeting agenda, workshop report and meeting report brief published in Eos, Vol. 91, No. 48, 30 November 2010.

         Other available information: walking directions between the hotel and NSF (campus map).

         Dates: 12 - 15 June 2012

         Location: National Science Foundation (NSF), Washington, D.C., U.S.

         The following reports from previous Arctic Cruise GEOTRACES planning workshops provide the framework for the Arctic Cruise planning are available to download (2009 and 2010 workshop reports).

         Download the U.S. Arctic Implementation Plan based on the 2012, NSF workshop.

         Dates: 12 - 14 January 2015

         Location: Miami, Florida, U.S.

         The Agenda and List of Participants are available to download.

         Dates: 23 - 26 October 2017

         Location: Miami, Florida, U.S.

         Host: David Kadko, chief scientist for the U.S. GEOTRACES GN01 cruise (HLY1502).

        The Schedule of the Workshop and the List of Participants are available to download.

Cruise Information

        To generate the cruise track map with Ocean Data View (ODV) use the linked file. Save the file to your computer as a .gob file (e.g. Map_Stations_GN01.gob). How to use the file: within ODV, right click on a surface map an use  -> Extras -> Add Graphic Objects from file -> GOB File, then select the *.gob file you wish to use.

Additional cruise information is available the Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R):

Datasets

Parameters sampled and other relevant metadata available from the Biological & Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO):

Link to GN01-related peer-reviewed papers database.

          Dates: 16 February 2020

          Location: Ocean Sciences Meeting, San Diego, CA, U.S.

Information on grants awarded to submitted Management Proposals

Source: NSF Division of Ocean Sciences.

Awards: Collaborative Research: Management and Implementation of the U.S. Arctic GEOTRACES StudyNSF 1355833NSF 1355913NSF 1455924.

 

Funding and Support