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Knorr heading off into the afternoon sun on its final WHOI cruise.

Knorr heading off into the afternoon sun on its final WHOI cruise.
Knorr heading off into the afternoon sun on its final WHOI cruise.
Knorr heading off into the afternoon sun on its final WHOI cruise.
Knorr heading off into the afternoon sun on its final WHOI cruise.
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Doucette, Jayne H
Knorr heading off into the afternoon sun on its final WHOI cruise.
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10/26/2014
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Departure from WHOI dock on Knorr cruise KN223 from 10/26/2014 to 12/02/2014. This is the final scheduled WHOI science cruise for Knorr and the Long Core system.
Cruise Chief Sci is Steven D'hondt of the University of Rhode Island.
The science objectives of this cruise will be long piston coring, gravity coring, multi-coring, CTD/Niskin operations; multi-beam and 3.5 kHz mapping of sites; shipboard studies of interstitial water chemistry; shipboard core logging; shipboard sampling for geochemistry, microbiology, paleo-oceanography.
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The research vessel Knorr left Woods Hole on Sunday for the final cruise of its career at WHOI. Since 1970, Knorr has traveled more than one million miles in support of research on the biology, chemistry, geology, geophysics, and physics of the ocean, and to advance instrument and vehicle development and ocean engineering. Along the way, it helped conduct the first surveys of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, explore chemosynthetic life on the seafloor, and discover the final resting place of RMS Titanic. On its last cruise, it is carrying the Long Core, a 30,000-pound instrument capable of extracting 150-foot-long sediment cores from the seafloor and that the ship had to be modified in order to support.
Photo by Jayne Doucette
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