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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

Metadata - No Marlin metadata records found or has not been linked to this survey or potentially the metadata catalogue is offline.

Participants - on ship:-

Participants - shore based:-

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 Voyage Plan - includes objectives, investigator details, proposed data collection, voyage track and equipment to be used.

• View Survey map

Data publishing - No datasets have been published

Deployments - None have been recorded in the Data Trawler.