Voyage details and related metadata, reports, events and data.
IN2026_T02
- is a Marine National Facility 
voyage
Title: CAPSTAN IN2026_T02
Period: 2026-04-23 07:00 to 2026-05-04 22:00 UTC
Duration: 11.63 days
From: Fremantle To: Hobart
Region: WA coast; Great Australian Bight; Southern Ocean; Tasmania Coast
Ship: Investigator (RV) [details]
Description: The Collaborative Australian Postgraduate Sea Training Alliance Network (CAPSTAN) is a maritime education and training initiative of CSIRO, the University of Tasmania’s Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) and the Australian and New Zealand International Scientific Drilling Consortium (ANZIC). The Program is supported by grants of sea time on RV Investigator (RVI) from the CSIRO Marine National Facility and through funding from the Australian Government’s National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS). There are no specific scientific objectives for this voyage, however the CAPSTAN platform aims to: • Develop and provide an effective vessel‐based tertiary education experience involving national stakeholders and post-graduate students, by pooling national tertiary teaching expertise and personnel resources. • Develop a national curriculum to standardise teaching protocols/methods and learning outcomes in conjunction with the new data collection equipment and facilities of the CSIRO research vessel RVI, the Integrated Marine Observatory System and external stakeholders, and. • Provide and test a multi‐disciplinary research‐based teaching module for marine science postgraduates with opportunities for student mobility and national network development. In addition to CAPSTAN’s core training objectives, this multidisciplinary voyage will explore: 1. Repeat sampling and survey of selected sites in the Bremer Canyon Region that were examined during the first Capstan voyage in 2017. 2. Oceanographic properties offshore of a persistent harmful algal bloom (HAB) in SA coastal waters. 3. Underwater Cultural Heritage (UCH) Surveys 4. Collection of samples for the AusCPR program using the Continuous Plankton Recorder.
Leader: Pier van der Merwe
Projects:
-
Investigator National Facility - transit voyage [details] Primary
-
Collaborative Australian Postgraduate Sea Training Network (CAPSTAN) [details] Supplementary
-
Deployment of Argo floats including Australian core, deep, and BGC, and floats from international partners [details] Piggy-back
-
Globalising Marine Biodiversity Observations (GLOMBO): autonomous genomic sampling system [details] Piggy-back
-
Looking for Karenia: a multi-disciplinary approach to HAB species identification [details] Piggy-back
Underway data from NRUD - see this voyage
Voyage extents: 43° 42.8' S to 31° 53.5' S 114° 36.4' E to 147° 30.0' E Get voyage track shapefile Get CSV
Marlin Metadata:-
Participants - on ship:-
| Name | Role | Organisation | Project |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ben Arthur | Voyage Manager | Marine National Facility | Voyage Management on RV Investigator |
| John Hooper | Alt. Voyage Manager | Marine National Facility | Voyage Management on RV Investigator |
| Natalia Ribeiro Santos | Co-Chief Scientist | University of Tasmania | Collaborative Australian Postgraduate Sea Training Network (CAPSTAN) |
| Olaf Meynecke | Co-Chief Scientist | Griffith University | Collaborative Australian Postgraduate Sea Training Network (CAPSTAN) |
| Pier van der Merwe | Lead Investigator | University of Tasmania | Collaborative Australian Postgraduate Sea Training Network (CAPSTAN) |
Participants - shore based:-
| Name | Role | Organisation | Project |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ruth Eriksen | PI Piggyback | CSIRO Environment | Looking for Karenia: a multi-disciplinary approach to HAB species identification |
| Sahan Jayasinghe | PI Piggyback | CSIRO Environment | Globalising Marine Biodiversity Observations (GLOMBO): autonomous genomic sampling system |
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
-
IN2026_T02 Hydrology Data Processing Report
- details of data processing steps, calibration information, instruments used and any issues with the data.
-
IN2026_T02 Voyage Plan
- includes objectives, investigator details, proposed data collection, voyage track and equipment to be used.
- View Survey map
Publications, reports and datasets from this voyage.
Dataset
- CSIRO; Marine National Facility; Van der Merwe, Pier; Ribeiro Santos, Natalia; Meynecke, Olaf; Eriksen, Ruth; & Jayasinghe, Sahan (2026): RV Investigator Voyage IN2026_T02 End of Voyage (EOV) Archive. v1. CSIRO. Data Collection. 10.25919/02eq-3n39
Journal Article
- Berry, Oliver,Nitschke, Matthew R.,Zivaljevic, Aleksandar,Budd, Alyssa M.,Zaiko, Anastasija,Camp, Emma F.,Raes, Eric J.,Luter, Heidi M.,Goold, Hugh D.,van de Kamp, Jodie,Seymour, Justin R.,Quigley, Kate M.,West, Katrina M.,Takahashi, Miwa,Paul, Nicholas A.,Buerger, Patrick,Jarman, Simon,Uthicke, Sven,Chan, Wing Yan,Yeoh, Yun Kit (2026) Omics, synthetic biology and biotechnology in Australian marine science. Australian Journal of Maritime & Ocean Affairs pp1-44. 10.1080/18366503.2026.2694228
Search for publications, reports and datasets from this and other voyages
Data publishing
This is a list of online datasets hosted by CSIRO. Other processed datasets hosted by collaborating organisations may be found on the 'Metadata' or "Reports, Publications and Maps' tab.
Use the Get data link on the right to extract data using the NCMI Data Trawler.
| Data Stream | Data Summary | Get data | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wildlife Observations |
|
Get Data from Trawler |
| ID | When (UTC) | Lat | Long | Instrument | Identifier | Action | Log | Subject / Comment |
|---|
Deployments by start time:- Click on column header to sort. Use link on 'Deployment' to see full details. Use the CSV button at the bottom to export data (tab delimited).
Search for deployments from this voyage and others
| Deployment | Operation | Station | Cast | Gear | Project | Start and end times | Start Location | End Location | Depth range | Max Depth | Description | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CTD Cast / Hydrology [details] | Cast 1 | Autosal Salinometer,CTD 23 - SN 1312,SCRIPPS Automated Photometric Oxygen System,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,Temperature CTD 23 - SN 6189 | 2026-04-23 12:37 | 2026-04-23 13:54 | -31.9759 | 115.0594 | 1001.9 | |||||||
| CTD Cast / Hydrology [details] | Cast 2 | Autosal Salinometer,CTD 23 - SN 1312,SCRIPPS Automated Photometric Oxygen System,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,Temperature CTD 23 - SN 6189 | 2026-04-25 08:47 | 2026-04-25 10:51 | -34.7198 | 119.7251 | 1863.4 | |||||||
| CTD Cast / Hydrology [details] | Cast 3 | Autosal Salinometer,CTD 23 - SN 1312,SCRIPPS Automated Photometric Oxygen System,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,Temperature CTD 23 - SN 6189 | 2026-04-26 04:50 | 2026-04-26 05:55 | -34.6113 | 119.6198 | 71.1 | |||||||
| CTD Cast / Hydrology [details] | Cast 5 | Autosal Salinometer,CTD 23 - SN 1312,SCRIPPS Automated Photometric Oxygen System,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,Temperature CTD 23 - SN 6189 | 2026-04-29 17:57 | 2026-04-29 20:35 | -36.4765 | 135.9513 | 3142.2 | |||||||
| CTD Cast / Hydrology [details] | Cast 6 | Autosal Salinometer,CTD 23 - SN 1312,SCRIPPS Automated Photometric Oxygen System,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,Temperature CTD 23 - SN 6189 | 2026-04-30 00:37 | 2026-04-30 01:23 | -36.3706 | 136.0312 | 370.2 | |||||||
| CTD Cast / Hydrology [details] | Cast 7 | Autosal Salinometer,CTD 23 - SN 1312,SCRIPPS Automated Photometric Oxygen System,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,Temperature CTD 23 - SN 6189 | 2026-04-30 02:23 | 2026-04-30 03:21 | -36.3813 | 136.0230 | 567.9 | |||||||
| CTD Cast / Hydrology [details] | Cast 8 | Autosal Salinometer,CTD 23 - SN 1312,SCRIPPS Automated Photometric Oxygen System,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,Temperature CTD 23 - SN 6189 | 2026-04-30 04:14 | 2026-04-30 05:28 | -36.3917 | 136.0160 | 819.8 | |||||||
| CTD Cast / Hydrology [details] | Cast 9 | Autosal Salinometer,CTD 23 - SN 1312,SCRIPPS Automated Photometric Oxygen System,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,Temperature CTD 23 - SN 6189 | 2026-04-30 06:22 | 2026-04-30 07:47 | -36.3996 | 136.0075 | 987.5 | |||||||
| CTD Cast / Hydrology [details] | Cast 10 | Autosal Salinometer,CTD 23 - SN 1312,SCRIPPS Automated Photometric Oxygen System,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,Temperature CTD 23 - SN 6189 | 2026-05-01 18:38 | 2026-05-01 20:55 | -38.8748 | 140.9976 | 2675.1 | |||||||
| CTD Cast / Hydrology [details] | Cast 11 | Autosal Salinometer,CTD 23 - SN 1312,SCRIPPS Automated Photometric Oxygen System,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,Temperature CTD 23 - SN 6189 | 2026-05-02 00:44 | 2026-05-02 01:31 | -38.5821 | 141.1678 | 372.1 | |||||||
| CTD Cast / Hydrology [details] | Cast 12 | Autosal Salinometer,CTD 23 - SN 1312,SCRIPPS Automated Photometric Oxygen System,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,Temperature CTD 23 - SN 6189 | 2026-05-02 02:22 | 2026-05-02 03:33 | -38.6153 | 141.1470 | 868 | |||||||
| CTD Cast / Hydrology [details] | Cast 13 | Autosal Salinometer,CTD 23 - SN 1312,SCRIPPS Automated Photometric Oxygen System,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,Temperature CTD 23 - SN 6189 | 2026-05-02 04:27 | 2026-05-02 06:03 | -38.6449 | 141.1304 | 1608.8 | |||||||
| CTD Cast / Hydrology [details] | Cast 14 | Autosal Salinometer,CTD 23 - SN 1312,SCRIPPS Automated Photometric Oxygen System,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,SEAL AutoAnalyzer 3 HR,Temperature CTD 23 - SN 6189 | 2026-05-02 07:44 | 2026-05-02 09:46 | -38.7641 | 141.1009 | 2123.7 | |||||||