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IN2025_V03
- is a Marine National Facility
voyage
Title: COAST‐k – Clean Ocean Air Sampling upwind of Tasmania ‐ kennaook
Period: 2025-04-28 22:00 to 2025-05-17 22:00 UTC
Duration: 19.00 days
From: Hobart To: Hobart
Ship: Investigator (RV) [details]
Description: The World Meteorological Organization’s (WMO) Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) program consists of an observational network charged with understanding the increasing influence of human activity on the global atmosphere. The kennaook / Cape Grim Baseline Air Pollution Station (KCGBAPS), measuring the Southern Ocean’s atmosphere from the northwest tip of Tasmania, is one of three premier global GAW stations. By utilising the mobility of the RV Investigator (RVI), the world’s first mobile GAW station, both stations can be compared directly and data quality improved and validated. This high-quality observational data feeds directly into improving both regional and global climate, air quality and Earth System models. This project aims to: 1. Directly compare two world-leading WMO-GAW stations, the RVI and the KCGBAPS – a global first. This will include validating the RVI’s full suite of atmospheric measurements and sampling systems against complementary measurements at the KCGBAPS, improving data quality for all locations visited by the vessel. 2. Validate how representative measurements of atmospheric composition and boundary layer structure at the KCGBAPS is of the broader Southern Ocean. 3. Provide improved characterisation of atmospheric structure and composition to inform and improve earth system, climate, air quality and smoke forecasting models. 4. Determine the best boundary conditions for air quality modelling over Australia by improving our understanding of Southern Ocean and Cape Grim baseline concentrations of a range of trace atmospheric constituents.
Leader: Ruhi Humphries
Projects:
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COAST‐k – Clean Ocean Air Sampling upwind of Tasmania ‐ kennaook [details] Primary
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Deployment of Argo floats including Australian core, deep, and BGC, and floats from international partners [details] Piggy-back
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Natural Iron Fertilisation of the Southern Ocean: Linking terrestrial dust and bushfires to marine biogeochemistry [details] Piggy-back
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Revealing offshore records of Cainozoic volcanism at kennaook/Cape Grim [details] Piggy-back
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Southern Ocean Winter Cloud Interactions processes (SOWCLIP) [details] Piggy-back
Underway data from NRUD - see this voyage
Voyage extents: 45° 09.3' S to 40° 39.0' S 132° 42.1' E to 148° 07.2' E Get voyage track shapefile Get CSV
Marlin Metadata:-
Participants - on ship:-
| Name | Role | Organisation | Project |
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| Alain Protat | Alternate Chief Scientist; PI SOWCLIP | Bureau of Meteorology | Southern Ocean Winter Cloud Interactions processes (SOWCLIP) |
| Max McGuire | Voyage Manager | Marine National Facility | Voyage Management on RV Investigator |
| Robyn Schofield | Alternate Chief Scientist | University of Melbourne | COAST‐k – Clean Ocean Air Sampling upwind of Tasmania ‐ kennaook |
| Ruhi Humphries | Chief Scientist | CSIRO Manufacturing | COAST‐k – Clean Ocean Air Sampling upwind of Tasmania ‐ kennaook |
Participants - shore based:-
| Name | Role | Organisation | Project |
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| Andy Bowie | PI Piggyback | University of Tasmania | Natural Iron Fertilisation of the Southern Ocean: Linking terrestrial dust and bushfires to marine biogeochemistry |
| Branka Miljevic | PI | Queensland University of Technology | COAST‐k – Clean Ocean Air Sampling upwind of Tasmania ‐ kennaook |
| Christina Schallenberg | PI Piggyback | CSIRO Manufacturing | Deployment of Argo floats including Australian core, deep, and BGC, and floats from international partners |
| Gabriela Semolini Pilo | PI Piggyback | CSIRO Manufacturing | Deployment of Argo floats including Australian core, deep, and BGC, and floats from international partners |
| Jay Mace | PI Piggyback | University of Utah (USA) | Southern Ocean Winter Cloud Interactions processes (SOWCLIP) |
| Jessie Creamean | PI Piggyback | Colorado State University (USA) | Southern Ocean Winter Cloud Interactions processes (SOWCLIP) |
| Jodi Fox | PI Piggyback | University of Tasmania | Revealing offshore records of Cainozoic volcanism at kennaook/Cape Grim |
| Melita Keywood | PI | CSIRO Manufacturing | COAST‐k – Clean Ocean Air Sampling upwind of Tasmania ‐ kennaook |
| Paul Krummel | PI | CSIRO Manufacturing | COAST‐k – Clean Ocean Air Sampling upwind of Tasmania ‐ kennaook |
| Simon Alexander | PI Piggyback | Australian Antarctic Division | Southern Ocean Winter Cloud Interactions processes (SOWCLIP) |
| Steven Siems | Pi Piggyback | Monash University | Southern Ocean Winter Cloud Interactions processes (SOWCLIP) |
| Suzie Molloy | PI | CSIRO Manufacturing | COAST‐k – Clean Ocean Air Sampling upwind of Tasmania ‐ kennaook |
This list includes those that may have only been on part of the voyage. See voyage reports on 'Reports and Maps' tab for details.
Marine National Facility Reports - plans, summaries and data processing
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IN2025_V03 Summary and Highlights Report
- includes preliminary results, voyage narrative, types of data collected with C77/ROSCOP codes.
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IN2025_V03 Voyage Plan
- includes objectives, investigator details, proposed data collection, voyage track and equipment to be used.
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