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	SUPER Survey of Underwater Plastic and Ecosystem Response (SUPER) 25 August – 05 September 2008 Chief Scientist Tara Clemente The objective of the SUPER cruise will be to collect marine debris in order to sample the microbial communities associated with plastic particles that have accumulated in the North Pacific Gyre. Lucy Marcus, a marine biologist and videographer, will be participating in the research cruise and will blog about her experience More About the SUPER Cruise
	OPEREX Ocean Perturbation Experiment (OPEREX) 30 July – 14 August 2008 Chief Scientist Zbigniew Kolber The objective of the OPEREX cruise will be to explore the potential and limitations of perturbation experiments at sea. We will follow some natural perturbations including blooms and eddies, and we will perform some of the artificial perturbation experiments including bench/lab scale incubations, ship deck incubations, and ship deck pH shift experiments. Miriam Sutton, a North Carolina middle school teacher, will be participating in the research cruise as a Teacher-at-Sea and will blog about her experience. More About the OPEREX Cruise
	C-MORE 2 BLOOM Ecological Reconnaisance (BLOOMER) 9-20 August 2007 Chief Scientist Ricardo Letelier The primary goal was the characterization of the microbial assemblage and biogeochemical fluxes associated with summer increases in cyanobacterial biomass in the vicinity of Station ALOHA. This characterization was compared to a sampling site where no biomass increase is detected. In addition, the intent was to establish transects across a bloom region, or try to sample distinct areas where blooms are detected from remote sensing and SeaGliders, to assess the spatial heterogeneity of these blooms. More About the BLOOMER Cruise
	Agouron 2 Summer Course in Microbial Oceanography 9-20 July 2007 Chief Scientist Matt Church This cruise was conducted as part of the Summer Course in Microbial Oceanography, funded through the Agouron Institute. Its purpose is primarily education and training of the next generation of microbial oceanographers. Cruise data are publically available through the link below. More About the 2007 Summer Course and Cruise
	C-MORE 1 Biogeochemistry of the Upper ocean: Latitudinal Assessment (BULA) 15-26 April 2007 Chief Scientist Matt Church This transect from Suva, Fiji to Honolulu, Hawaii was the inagural cruise of the Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education (C-MORE). Some of the many goals were to identify prominent trends in plankton biomass, to examine variability in upper ocean concentrations of dissolved organic matter, to isolate new photosynthetic organisms, to examine upper ocean biogeochemistry, and to study the diversity of marine viruses, to assay spatial distributions of microbial community structure. More About the BULA Cruise

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