SBIHLY-04-02FinalCruiseReport要点.docVIP

SBI HLY-04-02 Final Cruise Report Final Report: Western Arctic Shelf-Basin Interactions (SBI) Spring Cruise HLY-04-02 (15 May-23 June 2004) Edited by Jackie Grebmeier, Chief Scientist University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37932 USA; email: jgrebmei@ A. Introduction The 2004 oceanographic field phase of the Western Arctic Shelf-Basin Interactions (SBI) project began on the USCGC Healy icebreaker on 15 May 2004. There are 18 research projects included in the ship-based program, ranging from hydrographic measurements to biochemical tracers and biological studies of various trophic levels. The goal of the SBI global change project is to investigate the production, transformation and fate of carbon at the shelf-slope interface in the Arctic as a prelude to understanding the impacts of a potential warming of the Arctic. We worked initially in ice-free stations on the southern Chukchi Sea shelf (Herald Valley [HV] transect), then moved into very heavy ice cover in the Chukchi outer shelf to Arctic Basin line (East Hanna Shoal [EHS] transect line). We terminated the EHS line at 2500m and proceeded SE past Barrow to occupy the East Barrow (EB) line. Extremely heavy ice precluded our occupation of the EB line and we moved over to the Barrow Canyon (BC) line via a shortened transect north of Smith Bay (SB) line in the nearshore Beaufort Sea. The SBI project is an interdisciplinary program, where physical, biogeochemical and biological measurements are being made using a variety of sampling devices. CTD/rosette sampling collected physical and hydrochemical samples. Thirty-five stations were occupied during this cruise, with an additional 11 XCTD and 4 Video Plankton Recorder deployments. A total of 48 scientists from nineteen institutions in the United States, Bermuda, Canada, and Japan participated in this interdisciplinary scientific endeavor. In addition, a two-person BBC film crew joined us on June 11. Although an Alaskan community participant was scheduled to parti