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"SOUTHERN SURVEYOR" CSIRO Dredging, Fremantle -> Dampier WA. December 2005 [Jane Fromant & Corey Whissan - 1st leg - Frematle <-> Sth Coast Nov -30,2005]
[Nov. 20, 2005 - Wednesday]
Departed Kew St with Mark, Jenny & Oliver at ? 1pm for Francis St. Picked up E&D van- which Oliver drove to Fremantle "E Wharf" - IDs necessary to enter wharf area "Southern Surveyor" had just berthed - gear & specimens were unloaded & Oliver & Jenny returned to Key St. Corey & Jane showed Mark & me around vessel & I spoke with Alan Williams Chief Scientist CSIEO - who was returning to Tasmania next day. Met Rudy Kloser who was to take his place as Team Leader. met Robin Wilson & Tim O'Hara (MOV) who was leaving ship, or was. Penny Behrens. Met Briefly with Karen Gowlett=Holmes. Departed with Jane & Mark about 4pm - who dropped me off at home.
[Voyage Leader - Rudy Kloser CMAR; Andrea Cortese GA Swath support; Don McKenzie CMAR, Watch leader, gear; Karen Gowlett-Holmes CMAR, taxonomy co-ordinator; Gary Poore MV; David Staples MV; Anna McCullum MV; Steven Keable AM; Julia Phillips/John Keesing CMAR; Hiski Kippo CMAR, Computing support; Lindsay MacDonald CMAR, Electronics support; Mark Lewis CMAR. Gear; Mark Salotti WAM; SSS WAM. Sunset 1400-0200: Rudy; Gary; Mark; Gary; Anna; Hiski; SSS. Sunrise 0200-1400: Don; Steven; David; Mark; Lindsay; Julia/John; SSS.]
Thursday Dec 1, 2005.
Mark called for me in taxi at 6.15am & we reached ship before 7.00. Certian amount of confusion with people departing. Settled into cabins - I share #10-11 with Julia (CSIRO Perth) who is taking John Keesings place until Sunday when she will go ashore at Jurien & John will replace her. We had breakfast -met some of the crew, had Emergency Drill & tour around ship with Samantha ? (mate) then had meeting c scientific contingent who explained roles & plans for trip. interspersed c lunch. Dinner at 5.00 - "Sunset" crew had to dine early because of imminent beam trawl haul - (photos).
SS 1005/075 - L11 Lancelin; Beam trawl ? 400m; small catch: v many small echinoids & worms in transparent tubes & Moreton Bay bugs; various crustaceans; diverse turrids live & dead; sepiolids & sepiids; Dentalium spp; Limopsid; Nassarius (latter with worms). Sorted, labelled some photographs, others related to already photographed.
L11 SS 1005/076 Hard-Lancelin: heavy dredge - Sherman ? 100m; large haul of rubble & coarse grit (121.5kg) - almost no live specimens except from coarse grit which came from fine mesh box fitted to dredge. -live carditids; trigoniids; olives; Plicatula; Granicorum; Limopsis; dead cardiids - various but mainly Acrosterigma; some venerids; practically all gastropods were predators.
Just finished sorting & part labelling but not any preserved or photographed by 2 am.
Stn 077 - Plankton trawl L11 Lancelin. Stn 078 (2/12/05) Beam; Sepia cultrata, Gastropods, Barbatia reticulata, Naticid; L10 Jurien +400 Soft.
Stn 080 (2/12/05) Sherman; Tellinid, Eulimid, Turrid; Jurien L10, 400 Hard.
Stn 082 (2/12/05) Sherman; Lithophagid, Cardita, Barbatia: Jurien L10, 100 Hard.
Stn 083 (2/12/05), Jurien L10 100S?, Sherman; Cuspidaria, Arca, Turritella, Plicatula, Dimiya, Lima, Barbatia, Lithophagam Tucelona, Septifer, Babelomurex.
Stn 084 (2/12/05), Abrolhos, L9 1000S, Beam; Doryteuthus, Dentaliids, Trochids, Naticids, Cuspidaria, Buccinids, Turrids, Euceroa, Terebra, Bullids, etc.
Stn 085 (2/12/05); Squid, turrids; Beam, L9 700S, Abrolhos.
Stn 086; Argonauts, gastropods, Plankton; L9 700.
Friday 2 December 2005
Woke at about 8am, read, breakfast, helped in lab, with Mark doing Station SS1005/075. -large sponges, bryozoans, hydroids etc. Julia David & Stephen were processing station before that & one station (?076) not yet touched.
078 -Beamtrawl 3.5kg ?? Jurien L10 400S; 080 - Sherman dredge - 18.6kg L10 400 H; 082 - Sherman - ?75kg L10 100H; 083 - Sherman (100m) ?98kg L10 100 ?S;
084 - Beam (1000m) L9 Abrolhos S; 085 - Beam (700m) - L9 S Abrolhos.
2/12/05
84, L9-1000, Abrolhos, Beam, Soft; 85, L9-700, Abrolhos, Beam, Soft; 86, L9-700, Abrolhos, Plankton
3-XII-05
87, L9-700, Abrolhos, Sherman, Hard, 6.5kg; 88, L9 400, Abrolhos, Sherman, Hard, 15kg; 89, L9 400, Abrolhos, CTD; 90, L9 400, Abrolhos, Beam, 8.3kg; 91, L9 200, Abrolhos, Beam, 50ft, 152kg; 92, L9 100, Abrolhos, Sherman, Hard, 156 kg.
4/12/05
93, L9 100, Abrolhos, Sherman, Soft, 63kg; 94, L9 100, Abrolhos, Plankon, 7.1kg retained; 95, Trans 400, Abrolhos, Sherman, Hard, ?82kg; 96, L8 100, Kalbarri, Sherman, Soft, ?; 97, L8 400, Kalbarri, CTD; 98, L8 400, Kalbarri, Beam; 99, L8 250, Kalbarri, Beam, 167kg; 100, L8 400, Kalbarri, Plankton.
Sat 3rd Dec. 05
Stn 087: Turrids; Aplacopharan. Stn 088: Tellinid; turrids; gastropods. Stn 089: Sepia; Teremachia; Octopus; Fusinus sepiolid; cephalopod. Stn 091: Plicatula; Dimya; Colubraria. Stn 092: Lithophaga; Cardiid; Cardita; Gryphaeid.
Sun 4 Dec '05.
Stn 095: Tellinid; Fusinius; Sassia; Trochid; Gastopods; Terebellid; Chlamys; Limopsis. Stn 096: Colpospira; Turrids; Gyrinecium; Tucelona odhneri; ?Galeommalid; Solecurtis; Hyotissa; Lithophaga; Plicatula; Dimiya; Limopis. Stn 098: Capulus; gastropod. Stn 099: Octopod; Lima; Trivia; Bursa; Sassia spp; Emarginula. Stn 101: Xenophora; turrid; Barbatia; tellinid.
5-XII-05
Stn 102: Ungulinid; Modiolus spp; Galeoumalids; Barbatia; Chlamys; Venericardia spp.; Lima; Acrosterigma; Globivenus; Malleus; Venericardi; Tucetoma; Polinices; Bursa; Conus; Latirus; Pterynotus; Cypraea; Columbellid; Trivia; Marginellid; Ceratosoma; ?Trippa; Cryptoplax.
Monday 5 Dec '05
H=hard S=soft
L8#101; Sherman; 400; Kalbarri; 31kg. L8#102; Sherman; 100H; [Kalbarri]; >300kg. L7-L8#104; Bucket. L7#104; Sherman; 100H; Zuytdorp Video shot; 341kg. L7#105; Beam; 400S; Zuytdorp Video shot.
6/12/05
L7#106; Plankton; 400S; Zuytdorp; Phytosoma. L7#107; CTD; 200; Zuytdorp; ?. L7#108; SM Grab; 200; Zuytdorp; Soft. 109; Grab; 200; Zuytdorp; soft. L7#110; Beam; 100S; Zuytdorp; soft; >100kg. 1430 - 8 hours steaming to LG.
Stn104 - muricids; Amydalum; Lima; Barbatia; Arca; Venericardia; Neopycnodonte; Cryptoplax. Stn105 - Loligo; Octopod; small cephalopod; turrids.
Tuesday 6 Dec '05
Very rough sea at times. Bed at 3am. Woke at 9.30am - sunny day, high seas, steering problems for a while. Relieved other shift - the "Sunrisers" -lab clean & tidy after a busy night & morning.
Stn 110 - Nudibranch; chiton; spondylid; sepiolid; sepiid; Plicatula; bivalve spp; arcid; carditid; Nassarius. Stn 112 - Galeominatid; Cardita incrassata; Barbatia; Tucetona scalerisculple; B. pistachia; Lithophaga teres; Arcopsis; Neurocardium; Septifer bilocilaris; ?Anachis; Chiton; Tutufa bufo; Cymatium (juv.)
6-xii-05 H=hard S=soft
L6100 Stn 112; ShB; Sherman SH; 232kg.
7-XII-05
L6400 Stn 113; ShB; Beam S.; 4kg. L6120#Stn115; ShB; Sherman; 28kg. L6100#116; ShB; Beam.S; 4kg. L6100#117; ShB; South McIntyre Grab S. L6100#118; ShB; Beam S; 4kg. L5100#119; Carnarvon; CTD.
Wednesday 7 December 2005
p13 Coralliophiline spi. 115 - Bivalves; Plicatula; Nassarius; Gastropods; Syrinx; Scaphopod. 116 - no molluscs. 118 - muricid. Meeting at 1330hrs in lab.
Stn 120: Sherman: Tucetona gealei; Dimya; Venericardia; Barbatia (Acar) ?plicata; Barbatia ? pistachia - but long bands of periostraam from valve edges - posterior area; Globivenus sp; Glycymeris hedleyi (new); Terebridae (new); muricid juvenile; ?Cantharus sp juv. Stn 121: Octopus; Arcids juv.; Turrids 6 lots; ?Sassis sp.; Conus; Propeamussium sibogae; Xenophora. Station 112: Octopus; Crassatellinid; Sassina; Cerilliid; Conus orbiguyi; turrid; 3 lots "gastropods".
8 Dec. 2005
Station 124: Sepiolids; Sepiids; Spondylus; Chicoreus cervicornis; Gastropod; Xenophora; Ranellid; Terebra subdulata; fissurellid. Station 126: Xenophora; Pectinid; bivalves in sponge. Station 128: Conus; Philine; turrid ?Cochlospira; turrids; terebrid. Station 130: Philine; terebrid; Limopsis; turrid. Station 132: Corbulid sp1. Station 133: Sepiolid; Opisthobranch; Octopus; Chlamys; Acrosterigma; Aglaja; Dosinia; Spondylus; Crassatellid; Plicatula; Cardiid; Mactra; Cuspidaria; Ancillista; Xenophora sp 1; Nassarius; Trochid; Xenophora sp2; Muricid; Columbellid; Murexul; Haustellum; Nassariid.
9/12/05
Station 135: Chlamys; Chicoreus; Tudivasum; Pterynotus; Haustellum; Latirus; Distorsio; Latirus; Trochid; Limopsis; Globivenus; Chlamys; Limaria; Volachlamys; Chlamys; Minnachlamys; Nemocardium; Acrosterigma; Chama ? asperella; Arca; Minivala; Chlamys (? n sp); Spondylus; Gari ? weinkauffi; Philine; Tellinid. Station 137: Parvamussum; Turrid sp 3; Vertambitus; Lucinid. Station 139: sepiolid; venerid v juv.; Tucetona; Barbatia; Globivenus; Septifer; Dimya; Minivola[?]; Plicatula; Trochid ?Clanculus; Turrid; Ancillista; Colubraria castamea; Tudivasum; Ficus; Voluloconus; Tubula[?] ?cyanmai[?]; Touna; Acrosterigma; ? galeommalid. Station 140: ?Barbatia; ?Sassia; Chama; Biplex pulchra; Sepiola; Amaria ? grayi. Station 141: Philime: Nudibranch - dorid, yellow; [Nudibranch] - white c orange spots; Trochid; Amaria ? grayi; Lunopsis; Limpet; Scaphopcids.
Station 142: Bivalves mixed; turrids - sp 26; turrid.
10 December
Station 143: Neotrigonia kayamorae; scaphopoda; gastropods; mollusc. Station 144: Dorid; bivalves. Station 146: turid; Barbatia; Lima; Cardita; Arcopsis; Limaria; Amygdalum; Tucetona; Biplex pulch.; Dentalium; Haustellum ? multiplicatum; H. dolichourus; Terebra ? boucheti; Distorsio; Xenophora; Gemmula ? kieneri; Turrids 22; Turrid 36; Turrid 5; turrid X2. Station 148: turrid 5; [turrid] 4; [turrid] 18; [turrid] sp; Pinguintellina. Station 149: Octopus; Cuspidaria; Pseudamussium; Turrid 4; Teramachia dalli; turrid; Morum ?; Dentalium. Station 150: 1; Natica; Cuspidaria; Amygdalum; Tellin; Bivalve.
11 Dec.
Station 151: Scaphopod; Loliginid; Octopus; Sepiolid; Gastropods. Station 152: Nudibranch 10; Octopus; Bivalve (mussel); [Bivalve]; [Bivalve]; Corbula; Tellina; Arcopus; Cymatiinae; turrid; Nassarius; turrids x5; epitoniid; tellinid; Conus; limopsid; tonnid; tonnid. Station 153: muricid x2; nassariid x2; tonnid; bucciniid x5; terebrid x2; olive; turrid x3; Conus; Phos; Distorsio; Tulufa ? tenuigranosa[?]; Bolina; ? Dimya; Arcopsis; nudibranch; Cuspidaria; Callucina; Corbula; Amygdalum; lucinid; Cardita; Barbatia; Lima; Spondylus; Melo amphora. Station 154: turrid; Nucula; Dentalium; Tellina. Station 155/156: Voluta sp.; Colubraria; Distorsio; turrid; Haustellum; Xenophora ? indica; Cardita; Limopsis. Station 157: Sepiolid Rossia 1; Octopus 6; Histioteuthus 1; [Histioteuthus] 2; Sassia; ?Cassid juv.; umboniinae[?]; ?Pyramidellid; Dentalum; Tellina;? Gaimardia; ? Semele; turrid x 8; turritellid; Dentalium; Pleurobranch. S 159: Propeamussium; Tellin; Amygdalum; Cuspidaria; ? Mactrinula; ? corsid; Natica; Calliostoma; turrid x 2; Teramachia dalli; Nucula. S 160: turrid; Cuspidaria; Tellin; Amygdalum.
12 Dec.
S 162: Sepiolid 6; [Sepiolid] 7; scaphopod; turrids; Cuspidaria; Lima; Haustellum; Cardita. 163: bivalve; mixed bivalves; ? opisthobranch; Gastropods mixed; Bivalves x2; opisthobranch. 164: Diodora; Clanculus; Tylodina; Natica; Voluta; Volutoconus; Arcopsis; Barbatia; Spondylus; Limopsis. 165/166: squids x2; octopus x2; Limaria; turrids x3; tellin; ? Galeommatid; tellin; Cuspidaria; Nucula; Natica; Opisthobranch; Epitoucium; Dentalium. 168: Amygdalum; tellin; turrid x2; Dentalium.
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