September 8 - September 28 2004
The third ECOHAB Pacific Northwest cruise took place in September 2004
aboard the R/V Atlantis. The Atlantis left Seattle at 10:00 AM PDT
September 8 and returned to Seattle at 10:00 AM September 28. The chief
scientist was
Barbara Hickey.
| The ECOHAB 3 cruise was highly successful: Pseudo-nitzschia (PN)
blooms of unprecedented high densities and toxicities in the region persisted
throughout the cruise. This situation provides an important contrast
to the 2003 cruises, in which PN were present, but never a dominant species
of the phytoplankton assemblage. The longevity and toxicity of the blooms
as well as their large spatial extent provided a rare opportunity for
studying toxic blooms in situ. |
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