STATE DEPARTMENT CRUISE ID:
DOS-2006-113

NOAA CRUISE ID:
NF-07-05

SHIP NAME:
NOAA Ship NANCY FOSTER

OPERATING AGENCY:
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

PROJECT TITLE:
Coral Reef Ecosystem Research (CRER)

CRUISE DATES:
March 28, 2007 through April 9, 2007

CHIEF SCIENTIST:
Ryan H. Smith
NOAA/AOML/PhOD
4301 Rickenbacker Causeway
Miami, FL 33149 USA
ryan.smith@noaa.gov

CLEARANCE COUNTRIES:
United Kingdom, for Anguilla and British Virgin Islands 
Dominican Republic 
Guadeloupe/France, for Saint Martin and Saint Barthelemy 
Netherlands Antilles, for Saba, Sint Eustatius, and Sint Maarten 
Saint Kitts and Nevis 

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This CD contains the final, processed data from the Coral Reef 
Ecosystem Research (CRER) Cruise conducted aboard the NOAA Ship NANCY 
FOSTER between March 28, 2007 and April 9, 2007. 

The data contained on the CD inlcude:

CTD: processed data from all 
     conductivity, temperature, depth (CTD) casts

LADCP: processed data from all 
       lowered acoustic Doppler profiler (LADCP) casts

SADCP: processed hull-mounted acoustic Doppler current profiler (SADCP)
       data from the completed cruise ship track

TSG: processed sea surface, flow-through data collected with the ship's
     thermosalinograph (TSG) and fluorometer, covering the completed 
     cruise ship track

FISH: processed larval fish data collected from the various net tows 
      (BONGO, MOCNESS, etc.) conducted during the cruise.

In each directory, data include either a separate readme file or 
information in the header of the data file that describe in detail 
the data format contained therein.