WRITING CRUISE REPORTS


 


The following rough example is available as a rich text format template in order to facilitate editing for specific cruises.
 

CRUISE REPORT
Cruise Number:
FOCI Number: FOCI
Ship:
Date:

Area of Operations:

Itinerary:

(list ports and dates)

Participating Organizations:

Chief Scientist:

(list affiliation)

Personnel:

(list affiliation)

Objectives of Cruise:

Summary of Operations:

(Statistical data.  Number of specific operations and samples collected from DSDB.)

Operations:

ADCP Lines
ADCP backtrack "L"
CTD casts

Plankton tows
Bongos, 60 cm
Bongos, 20 cm

Fishing trawls
Tucker trawls
MOCNESS tows
Live tows
Methot trawls

Mooring deployment
Mooring recoveries
Satellite tracked buoy deployment
Loran-C drifters deployed
Loran-C drifters recovered
Samples Collected:
Chlorophyll samples
Nutrient samples
Microzooplankton samples
Plankton samples
Predator samples
Stomach samples
Pollock samples
Pollock larvae samples
Pollock egg samples

Summary of Cruise:

(What took place, how the cruise went, days lost to weather and breakdowns, noteworthy occurrences, recommendations, etc.)

Specifics of operations:

(Date, time, position, id number, operation, depth, comments)

Attachments:

(Plots, diagrams, etc.)