conduct ROV and AUV surveys of deep sea coral and sponge habitat and CTD and discrete ROV sampling of biologic specimens
Location
Cascadia Margin
Summary
Unfortunately, despite substantial planning, the cruise was cut short due to NOAA medical/personnel issues. However, 3 days of operations were conducted which included CTDs (7 casts), ROV (3 ROV science dives) and AUV (3 AUV surveys) dives and deployment of the wave glider in addition to select number of specimens for isotope and eDNA analysis. ROV dive annotations have been completed by T. Laidig.
Info derived
video and stills of habitat and community composition, food web (isotopes) and environmental (water column) data
