RESEARCH PERMIT APPLICATION FOR THE EXCLUSIVE ECONOMIC ZONE OF THE FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA
Date: 12-15-00
1. NAME OF APPLICANT: Dr. Sherman Bloomer
Department of Geosciences
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331
Dr. Patricia Fryer
SOEST/Planetary Geosciences
2525 Correa Road
Honolulu, HI 96822
2. ADDRESS OF APPLICANT: see above
3. VESSEL NAME: R/V Melville
4. TYPE OF VESSEL: Research Vessel
5. RADIO TELEGRAM CALL SIGN: WECB
6. SIGNAL LETTER (IF NO RADIO TELEGRAM CALL SIGN):
7. FISHING VESSEL REGISTRATION NUMBER: NOT APPLICABLE
8. VESSEL PARTICULARS:
A. YEAR LAUNCHED: 1969
B. LENGTH: 278' 10"
C. BREADTH: 46'
D. DEPTH:16' 6"
E. GROSS TONNAGE: 2516 tons
F. ENGINE HORSEPOWER: Diesel-Electric SCR Caterpillar 3 @ 1,550 hp and 1 @ 700 hp 1,500 hp per shaft
H. SIZE OF SCIENTIFIC PARTY IN THE ABOVE: 18-25
9. DESCRIPTION OF VESSEL REFRIGERATION:
A. REFRIGERATION METHOD: Not applicable
B. IF BRINE, NaCl or CaCl: Not applicable
C. STORAGE TEMPERATURE: Not applicable
D. STORAGE CAPACITY: Not applicable
10. LANDING PLACE(S) WHERE CATCH WILL BE DISCHARGED:
A. Not applicable
B. Not applicable
C. Not applicable
11. DETAILS OF RESEARCH OR TRAINING WITHIN THE EXTENDED FISHERY ZONE: (IN CASE OF MULTIPLE VOYAGES DURING VALIDITY
PERIOD OF PERMIT, THIS ITEM MUST BE COMPLETED FOR EACH VOYAGE).
(1) A. AREA OF OPERATION: Please see attached cruise plan and cruise track
B. ITINERARY:
C. PURPOSE:
D. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE:
E. METHOD OF RESEARCH:
TRAINING:
F. CHIEF INVESTIGATOR
CHIEF INSTRUCTOR:
G. NUMBER IN SCIENTIFIC PARTY IF DIFFERENT FROM 8 (H) ABOVE
12. CAPACITY OF VESSEL TO ACCOMMODATE SCIENTIFIC PARTICIPANTS OR TRAINEES: We welcome one observer from FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA
13 OPERATION COST: Not applicable
IS NOT (ATTACH OFFICIAL SUPPORTING DOCUMENT) DEPENDENT OF CATCH.
SIGNATURE:
Elizabeth Brenner
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, California, 92083-0210
(858) 534-2841
shipsked@ucsd.edu
Appendix I -Cruise Plan
7,8,9
10 FEB NP10/Mariana Forearch/ Fryer, P./SOEST/ Guam 23/NSF/F
01 MAR Hawaii MR1, dredging OCE99-07063 Guam
2,3
04 MAR NP10// Bloomer S./OSU/ Guam 39/NSF/F
12 APR Hawaii MR-1,dredging OCE001876 Guam
/Mariana forear Fryer, P./SOEST/ 5/NSF/F
Hawaii MR-1 OCE99-07063
Fryer:
Leave port February 10
Surveying with HMR1, from February 10th through February 24th south
and west of Guam, concentrated in an area between 11§N and 13§30'N,
140§30'E and 143§30'E. Continuous surveying with HMR1.
The shipboard gravimeter and towed magnetometer will be run
concurrently throughout.
No seismic gear will be deployed.
After the area is surveyed (southwest of Guam) HMR1 will be recovered
and secured on or about the 24th of February, near the southwestern
edge of the work area (11§N, 140§30'E). We will then do rock
dredging (standard chain bag dredge run off the starboard A-frame
also will attempt wax coring on the backarc basin spreading axis) at
selected sites working back eastwards to Guam. Seabeam will be used
during this time for positioning.
Lab faciltiies required will be the standard underway monitors, the
standard Seabeam processing and products (during dredging operations,
the standard HMR11 processing and products as supplied by the HMRG,
and space for sawing rocks and laying out and describing specimens.
Return to port in Guam 1 March.
Bloomer:
Leave port March 4th, Robert Stern of the University of Texas at
Dallas will serve as co-chief scientist for the first mini-leg.
Surveying with HMR1, beginning about 6 hours out of Guam from 13o30'N just
west of Guam northwards (or as early as we can deploy HMR1).
Surveying northwest of Guam, concentrated in an area between 13§30'N
and 16§N, 143§30'E and 146§E. Continuous surveying with HMR1.
The shipboard gravimeter and towed magnetometer will be run
concurrently throughout. A three-component magnetometer supplied by
one of our Japanese colleagues will be mounted on Melville. This is
not towed in the water and requires only power and space (if I have
my story straight, we are securing technical specifications for this).
No seismic gear will be deployed.
On or about March 16 we will make a transect across the arc and the
forearc to about 13§50'N, 146§E, to the area of operations of JOIDES
Resolution. We will retrieve and secure HMR1, and transfer Patty
Fryer from the Resolution to Melville via small boat, weather
permitting (the dates for this transfer are flexible over a period of
about 3-4 days). We will then redeploy HMR1, and run a survey with
the same suite of instruments in the area immediately southeast of
Guam between 12§N and 13§30'N and about 144§30'E to 146§E until the
22nd of March.
We will retrieve and secure HMR1 on the evening of March 21st, and begin to
break it down. We plan to be near Guam at this point, ready to enter
harbor on March 23rd and offload HMR1. It takes about one to day to
pack, secure, and off-load HMR1. I am not sure how much of this can
be done at sea. If we can do the breakdown at sea, we will do 2 dredges
off the starboard A-frame SE of Guam and/or Seabeam surveying south and west
of Guam. We plan to schedule the breakdwon of HMR1 such that we can enter
port the morning of the 23rd, offload HMR-1, make the changeover of part of
the scientific party, and put to sea again that afternoon.
The remainder of the cruise will be spent in bottom sampling, in the
area area between 14oN and 16oN, 144oE and 146oE. We will use
standard chain-bag rock dredges off the stern A-frame, alternating
with a large pipe dredge, also off the stern A-frame. The pipe
dredge simply replaces the chain bag dredge and is rigged the same
way. We will make occasional use of the wax corer when working on
the back-arc axis. Seabeam will be used during this time for
positioning.
Lab faciltiies required will be the standard underway monitors, the
standard Seabeam processing and products, the standard MR-1
processing and products as supplied by the HMRG group, and space for
sawing rocks and laying out and describing specimens.
Return to port in Guam 12 April.