Cruise Report W-43 : scientific activities undertaken aboard R/V Westward, St. Thomas - Guadeloupe - Jamaica - Key West, 29 November 1978 - 10 January 1979

Abstract

The objective of this cruise report is to compile the data collected by 23 undergraduate students, 3 staff scientists, and 4 visiting scholars on cruise W-43 of the R/V Westward. This compilation of data in one place can serve as a guide for future Westward cruises, as a data base for interpretation of results by scientists ashore, and as a teaching reference in the shore component of the Sea Semester program. The report presents an overview of cruise W-43 with some preliminary interpretation of results. We conducted an array of individual projects, many of them focused on the study of island mass effects, and this report provides space to see how our diverse interests meshed.