Plattform Platform	Reise-Nr. Cruise-No.	Zeitraum Period	Projekt Project	Arbeitsgebiet Working area
Meteor	M135	01.03.2017 - 08.04.2017	SFB 754	SE Pacific (Limit 140W)

Fahrtleiter Chief Scientist	Institut Institute	Auslaufhafen Port of departure	Einlaufhafen Port of return	Stationskarte Station map	Schiffsroute Trackchart
Visbeck Martin	Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR)	Valparaiso	Callao

Ziel der Reise / Objectives of Cruise:

R/V METEOR departed from Valparaiso, Chile in the evening of March 1 2017 an began a transect along the 2000m isobath northward with the first CTD-station at 31?S with a station every 1? until 23?S. On March 5 we performed the first zonal section along 23?S west until 74?W and returning along 22?S back to the shelf. The pattern was repeated along 21? and 20?S until the afternoon of March 10 when an acoustic survey of Chilean shelf between 71?W and 70?20'W and 18?48'S and 18?30'S was performed and a core war recovered at 18?47'S and 70?51'W. On March 11 afternoon the CTD survey resumed from the coast of Chile along 19?S. On March 12 lunch time we crossed into the economic zone of Peru. At 74?W we returned to the coast along 18?S and made a brief stop near Ilo on March 18 to remove an entangled drifting fisher net from the ships hull. The next two days were spent with acoustic surveys and coring operation that yielded five 4-9m long cores near 17?28'S and 71?43'W. On March 21 we began a westward survey along 17?S and reached the western most station at 86?W on March 25. On March 29 we returned to the coast after a section along 16?S and completed two shelf break surveys with echo sounder, underway CTD sections and micro structure profiles. The next CTD survey went westward along 15?S and reached 81?W on March 31 and returned to the coast along 14?S. On April 3 two gliders were deployed at 14? 2'S and 76? 53'W near the position of the last tracer release site. The next section went west along 13?S and on April 5 the final section east along 12?S started at 81?W. On April 6 a short dog leg brought us to the shelf at 10? 40'S the location of the first tracer release position. On April 7 we finished the 12?S section and moved slightly south with a last CTD at the second tracer release site. The expedition finished with a micro structure transect onto the shelf south of 12?S. METEOR reached the port of Callao, Peru on April 8 2017.

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