Voyage Number
IN2026_V03
Voyage Dates
Voyage Location
Chief Scientist
Dr Elizabeth Shadwick
Institution
IMOS
Voyage summary
Research voyage to the Southern Ocean to maintain long-term deep-water automated moorings for monitoring of ocean and climate.
This voyage will contribute to global data sets and increase understanding of Southern Ocean characteristics, variability and processes. The Southern Ocean Time Series (SOTS) moorings provide year-long observations in a critical part of the Southern Ocean, where ocean interactions are most intense and least studied. This is information vital for informing ocean and climate modelling.
The primary objective is to first deploy a new set of SOTS moorings (SOFS-15 and SAZ-28) and then recover the existing SOTS moorings (SAZ-27).
There are 3 other projects included on this voyage:
- Chumbucket (Dr Ruth Eriksen, CSIRO): sampling for phytoplankton diversity.
- Globalising Marine Biodiversity Observations (GLOMBO): autonomous genomic sampling (Sahan Jayasinghe, CSIRO): development of an autonomous environmental DNA (eDNA) sampling system that can be integrated into RV Investigator's underway seawater system.
- Developing Jonathan: an on-vessel automated seabird detector (Carlie Devine and Rich Little, CSIRO): collection of seabird counts in coastal and open ocean environments using an automated on-vessel seabird detector called ‘Jonathan’.
SOTS is part of the Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS), a global monitoring program to collect long time-series ocean data to better understand ocean and climate change and variability.
The science team will have 8 science participants representing 3 institutions, and the voyage includes 21 ship crew from Cyan.
Voyage outcomes
Voyage outcomes will be provided 3-6 months after the completion of the voyage.