CSIRO Marine Research

 

National Facility Research Vessel


 
RV FRANKLIN

 

 

Voyage Plans and Summaries

Voyage plans and summaries are available for each voyage of RV Franklin .

The purpose of the voyage plan is to outline the objectives of the voyage, the location, list the scientific and operational crew, and show the timetable of activities. The summary is a wrap up of the activities and achievements of the voyage, including any achievements or activities outside of the planned objectives.

Hard copies of summaries pre-1999 are available from the CMR library in Hobart

2002

Voyage
Number

Voyage Title

Documents

FR01/02

Cross-shelf sediment transport in the Torres Strait, Gulf of Papua region. (17 January - 6 February 2002)

Plan

Summary

FR02/02

Variability related to subduction style of submarine hydrothermal and volcanic activity in the Western Bismarck Island Arc, Papua New Guinea. (1-25 March, 2002)

Plan

Summary

FR03/02

Submarine hydrothermal activity and volcanic petrogenesis associated with the birth of island arcs in the Solomon Islands. (26 March - 23 April, 2002)

Plan

Summary

2001

Voyage
Number

Voyage Title

Documents

FR01/01

Warm seeps at the shelf margin of the Great Australian Bight: Indications of a new analogue for ore environments. (GABSEEPS)
(31 January - 15 February, 2001)

Plan

Summary

FR02/01

Mixing processes in the Subtropical Front (16 February - 6 March, 2001).

Plan

Summary

FR03/01

Geoscience studies on the Southeast Australian continental slope and shelf: rift and drift sedimentation, and palaeo-oceanography (21 March - 10 April, 2001)

Plan

Summary

FR04/01

Tasman-Coral Sea mass and heat transport / Regional Ocean Observing Network design - Part 1 (11-23 May, 2001)

Plan

Summary

 

FR05/01

Monitoring ocean climate change around Australia. (24 May - 7 July)

Plan

Summary

 

FR06/01

Tasman-Coral Sea mass and heat transport / Regional Ocean Observing Network design – Part 2 (9-23 July, 2001)

Plan

Summary

 

FR07/01

The palaeoclimatic history of the New Caledonia region - closing the gap between the deep-sea and the coral records (29 August - 4 September)

Plan

Summary

FR08/01

VAVE-2001 (Vanuatu and Australia Vents Expedition)
Seafloor hydrothermal activity in arc and backarc settings, Vanuatu, SW Pacific (5-24 September, 2001)

Plan

Summary

FR09/01

Geophysics, geochemistry and sedimentology associated with an inferred large gas hydrate deposit, eastern Lord Howe Rise, Tasman Sea (FAUST 3) (13 November - 6 December, 2001)

Plan

Summary

 

2000

Voyage
Number

Voyage Title

Documents

FR01/00

TROPICS 2000: investigation on the supply of nutrients, organics and trace metals to the equatorial region from the Sepik River (14 January-3 February 2000)

Plan

FR02/00

Tropical River Ocean Processes in Coastal Settings (TROPICS) Project - Biogeochemistry, Benthos, & Sedimentation in the Gulf of Papua (4-22 February 2000)

Plan

Summary

FR03/00

Microbes from Hydrothermal Vents: Applications in Mining and Mineral Processing.(14 April-4 May 2000)

Plan

Summary
Provided as a PDF document (47 pages, 152K)

FR04/00

Investigation of Hydrothermally Active Submarine Island Arc Volcanoes in the Tabar-Lihir-Tanga-Feni Island and Solomon Island Chains (5-24 May 2000)

Plan

Summary

FR05/00

Seismic structure and sedimentary setting of coral reef systems of the Northwest Shelf, Rowley Shoals, Scott and Seringapatam Reefs: implications for global sea level and climate during the Quaternary. (12 July - 1 August 2000)

Plan

Summary

FR06/00

The Continent-Ocean Transition of the Crust and Mantle across the North West Shelf (2-10 August, 2000)

Plan

Summary

FR07/00

Tidal mixing and the seasonal cycle of the Leeuwin Current II (mooring recovery).
(11-18 August, 2000)

Plan

Summary

FR08/00

The Continent-Ocean Transition of the Crust and Mantle across the North West Shelf (Leg 2).
(22-25 September, 2000)

Plan

Summary

FR09/00

Monitoring Ocean Climate Change Around Australia: the Deep Ocean Time Series Sections (DOTSS)
(26 September - 6 November, 2000)

Plan

Summary

FR10/00

Continental Shelf Processes between Shark Bay and North West Cape.
(7-20 November, 2000)

Plan

Summary

1999

Voyage
Number

Voyage Title

Documents

FR04/99

Extension of cool-water carbonate facies into deeper water in Australia’s tropical North-West Shelf area: oceanographic, sedimentological, paleontological and geochemical history. (21 June-13 July 1999)

Plan

Summary

FR06/99

Joint air-sea monsoon investigation II (JASMINE II) (2-28 September 1999)

Plan

Summary

FR07/99

Acoustic Thermometry of the Indian Ocean (29 September-19 October 1999)

Plan

Summary

Printed copies of plans and summaries not provided here are available from the CMR library in Hobart.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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