7/24/97: Personnel change for MF97-09A
| Program | Platform (linked cruise instructions) | Dates | Ports | Days | Activities* | Personnel |
| Bering (I) | MF97-01 | Feb 10 to Feb 18 to Feb 26 | Seattle to Dutch Harbor to Dutch Harbor | (8), 9 | (A, C, F) Test systems, deploy Bering Sea shelf subsurface moorings; NPZ samples, transect, Unimak stations | PARKER, DeWitt, Kachel, Delich, Smith(UAF) |
| MACE Ha (I) | MF97-02 | Feb 28 to Mar 11 | Dutch Harbor to Dutch Harbor | 12 | Bogoslof EIT, egg collections? | WILLIAMSON |
| MACE Ha (II) | MF97-03 | Mar 13 to Mar 26 | Dutch Harbor to Homer | 14 | Shelikof EIT, egg collections, genetic samples | C. WILSON, Britt |
| Bering (II) | MF97-04 | Mar 28 to Apr 13 | Homer to Dutch Harbor | 17 | (E, K, L) Drifters, line 8, egg collections, slope current | COKELET, Dougherty, Van Meurs, Blood, Rugen |
| Bering (III) | MF97-05A | Apr 15 to May 1 | Dutch Harbor to Dutch Harbor | 17 | (A, E, I) Recover/deploy moorings, NPZ samples, transect, Unimak stations, egg incubation | NAPP, Rugen, Busby, Clark, Parker, DeWitt, Smith(PMEL), Jorgensen |
| Bering (IV) | MF97-05B | May 3 to May 13 | Dutch Harbor to Dutch Harbor | 11 | (D, E, F, M) NPZ samples, larval feeding, egg incubation | COKELET, Brown, Dougherty, Blood, Rho, Goering, Whitledge, Tinnin, Westrick, Jorgensen, Hodgson |
| N. Pacific | W9705B | May 13 to Jun 1 | Seattle to Dutch Harbor | 20 | (P, T) N. Pacific, Alaskan Stream, Amukta Pass | REED, DeWitt, Kachel, Van Meurs, Hamilton |
| Tsunami | MF97-06 | May 14 to May 21 | Dutch Harbor to Kodiak | 8 | (E, L, U) Tsunami moorings, line 8, ADCP, drifters, egg incubation | WENDLAND, Blood, Jorgensen |
| GOA(I) | MF97-07 | May 23 to May 31 to Jun 6 | Kodiak to Kodiak TNG to Seattle | 15 | (E, N) Larval index survey, drifters | CANINO, Clark, Mier, Picquelle, Brown, Britt |
| Bering (V) | HX196 | May 29 to Jun 30 | Seward to Seward | 33 | Inner front | HUNT, Salo |
| Bering (VI) | W9706A | Jun 4 to Jun 9 | Dutch Harbor to Dutch TNG | 6 | (G, J) Deploy/recover moorings, test MPS gear | DEWITT, Parker, Brodeur, M. Wilson, PMEL(1), Clark, Kachel?, NMML? |
| Bering (VII) | W9706B | Jun 10 to Jun 27 | Dutch TNG to Dutch Harbor | 18 | (B, D, F) Eddy studies, NPZ samples | STABENO, Henrichs, Westrick, Rho, Smith(UAF), Cullen, Davis, Parkhill, Johannessen, DeWitt |
| Bering (VIII) | W9706C | Jun 30 to Jul 14 | Dutch Harbor to Dutch TNG | 15 | (A, G) Habitat survey, ground truth, transect | M. WILSON, Salo, Higgins, Cianelli, Britt, Porter, Savage, UC-Irvine(1), Baier, Clark, Pautzke |
| Japan | Oshoro Maru | Jul 18 to Aug 2 | Seward to Dutch Harbor | 16 | EBS shelf and St. Lawrence shelf survey: CTD, bottom trawl, NORPAC net, larval net, juvenile beam trawl | Busby, Sugisaki |
| Bering (IX) | HX200 | Aug 12 to Aug 28 | Dutch Harbor to Dutch Harbor | 17 | Inner front | HUNT, PMEL(2) |
| Bering (X) | MF97-09A | Sep 8 to Sep 18 | Dutch Harbor to St. Paul TNG | 10 | (A, F, G, Q) Age-0 survey | BRODEUR, Busby, M. Wilson, Mattson, Mills, Britt, Taylor, Napp, Jorgensen or Baier, Zegowitz, Morado, Decker |
| Bering (XI) | MF97-09B | Sep 18 to Sep 27 | St. Paul TNG to Dutch Harbor | 10 | (A, C, D, F) Mooring recovery, NPZ samples, transect | PARKER, DeWitt, PMEL(1), Henrichs/Whitledge(2), Goering, Baier, Jorgensen |
| Code | Project | Component (PI) |
| A | SEBSCC | Monitoring (Schumacher et al.) |
| B | SEBSCC | Eddies (Stabeno) |
| C | SEBSCC | Sinking Organic Matter (Henrichs) |
| D | SEBSCC | Rates of Photosynthesis (Henrichs) |
| E | SEBSCC | Low-Temperature Egg Incubation (Blood) |
| F | SEBSCC | Origin and Dynamics of Nutrients (Whitledge) |
| G | SEBSCC | Habitat Differences (Brodeur et al.) |
| H | SEBSCC | Scales of Variability from Cores (Francis) |
| I | NSF Co-op | Thorium 234 (Naidu) |
| J | FOCI | Unimak Pass Transport (Cokelet) |
| K | FOCI | Bering Slope Current (Schumacher) |
| L | FOCI | SS Line 8 (Napp) |
| M | FOCI | BS Larval Feeding (Bailey et al.) |
| N | FOCI | SS Late larval index (Kendall) |
| O | FOCI | SS Process Studies (Bailey et al.) |
| P | FOCI | Amukta Pass (Stabeno, Reed) |
| Q | FOCI | BS Age-0 Ecology (Brodeur) |
| R | FOCI | SS Age-0 Ecology (Brodeur) |
| S | FOCI | BS Hydroacoustic Collections (Brodeur) |
| T | FOCI/GLOBEC | NPac Observations (Schumacher) |
| U | Tsunami | Mooring Maintenance (Wendland) |