1. Notes/materials/powerpoints/software: Will be posted on anonymous ftp server geo.ucsd.edu, log in as “anonymous” with your email address as password, and go to /pub/usend/teach/spring14/218B_practicum (use regular ftp, secure sftp does not work for anonymous log-ins), or point your browser to ftp://geo.ucsd.edu/pub/usend/teach/spring14/218B_practicum Contact: Uwe Send, NH 446 usend@ucsd.edu 822-6710 Matthias Lankhorst, NH 444 mlankhorst@ucsd.edu 822-5013

2. Nominal mooring location 32° 55.6N, 117 ° 18.9W Need before the cruise: - Cruise plan (schedule)done 2014-4-18 - Inform ship sked and STSSend staff will complete - Packing lists (what do we need to prepare and take)done 2014-4-18 - Assign instruments (to read up, get manuals, etc)done 2014-4-18 - Assign people for packing, transporting, loading, setting up/securing done 2014-4-24

3. Brainstorming Packing Lists: Clothing: closed-toe shoes, clothes that can get dirty, spare set of clothes, protection against sun and rain Loading/Securing Deck: bungees, ratchet straps, ropes, rubber mats Mooring pickup: big shackle, work gloves, hard hats, tag lines, big block, grapple hook, spooling equipment Hardware tools: (Send staff will complete) Data/communication: Laptops, flash drives, (serial) cables, inductive modem Cleaning: rubber gloves, paper towels, sponges, scrapers/knives, buckets Spares: (Send staff will complete) Lab: (Send staff will complete) Sampling: special bottles by sampling type, filtration gear, DO chemicals & MSDS, cooler & ice packs, rubber gloves and goggles, parafilm, blank log sheets

4. Brainstorming Packing Lists (notes from previous class): Close-toed shoes, working (dirty) clothes, sunscreen, spare clothes, hard hats, life vests Webbing, straps, tie-down equipment, zip ties Block, bosun’s hooks, lines, heavy-duty shackles & lines for mooring pick-up Tire for buoy placement on deck Tools for every possible hardware connection (wrenches, screwdrivers, pliers, hammers) Cables with connectors matching the instruments, inductive modems Laptops, USB drives Scrubs & brushes, knives, scrapers for buoy cleaning; generic cleaning supplies Spare batteries, standard instrument-specific spare kits Cloth, tape, plastic bags to pack sensors moist & dark Water sampling equipment (bottles, chemicals, filtration gear) for salinity, oxygen, fluorescence