SOCCOM relies on U.S. and international partners to help us deploy our biogeochemical floats throughout the Southern Ocean. The tables below list the researchers and programs from around the world that have partnered with SOCCOM to build our array since 2014. International Deployments Country Chief Scientist Institution Ship Cruise name Cruise ID Cruise start date Germany Olaf Boebel AWI Polarstern A12 PS89 2014-12-02 Australia Tom Trull CSIRO Investigator SOTS IN2015_V01 2015-03-21 UK Yvonne Firing BAS JC Ross GO-SHIP SR1B JR15003 2015-12-17 Australia Mike Coffin U. Tasmania Investigator HEOBI IN2016_V01 2016-01-08 Australia Andrew Constable AAD Aurora Australis K-Axis AU1603 2016-01-11 Australia Tom Trull CSIRO Investigator Eddy IN2016_V02 2016-03-14 Australia Bernadette Sloyan CSIRO Investigator GO-SHIP P15S IN2016_V03 2016-04-26 Switzerland David Walton BAS (UK) Akademik Tryoshnikov ACE Leg 1 2016-12-20 Japan Hiroshi Uchida JAMSTEC Mirai GO-SHIP P17E MR16-09 2017-02-08 South Africa Tahlia Henry; Isabelle Ansorge UCT Agulhas II Gough 2017-09-07 India Rajani Kanta Mishra NCPOR Agulhas I SOE10 2017-12-09 Australia Steve Rintoul CSIRO Investigator GO-SHIP SR3 IN2018_V01 2018-01-11 UK Glen Tarran PML JC Ross AMT28 JR18001 2018-09-23 Japan Hiroto Murase AFFRC Kaiyo-Maru CCAMLR KY18-04 2018-12-05 Germany Olaf Boebel AWI Polarstern A12 PS117 2018-12-15 UK Andrew Meijers BAS JC Ross ORCHESTRA ANDREX II JR18005 2019-02-21 UK Adrian Martin NOC Discovery RoSES CUSTARD DY111 2019-12-02 Japan Katsuro Katsumata JAMSTEC Mirai GO-SHIP I7S MR19-04 2019-12-29 Australia Mike Coffin U. Tasmania Investigator Kerguelen IN2020_V01 2020-01-10 Australia Veronica Tamsitt UNSW Investigator CAPSTAN IN2020_T01 2020-03-14 U.S. Deployments Country Chief Scientists Name Institution Ship Cruise name Cruise ID Cruise start date SOCCOM Cruise number US Lynne Talley SIO NB Palmer GO-SHIP P16S NBP14-03 2014-03-20 1 US Sebastien Bigorre WHOI NB Palmer OOISO NBP15-11 2015-12-06 4 US Alison Macdonald WHOI Revelle GO-SHIP S4P RR1603 2016-02-08 8 US Rolf Sonnerup; Brendan Carter NOAA/PMEL Ron Brown GO-SHIP P18 RB-16-06 2016-11-19 11 US Steve Riser; Tatiana Rynearson UW; URI NB Palmer HazMat NBP17-01 2016-12-24 13 US Steve Ackley UT San Antonio NB Palmer Pipers NBP17-04 2017-04-10 15 US Sabine Mecking UW NB Palmer GO-SHIP P6W NBP17-06 2017-07-03 16 US Kevin Speer FSU NB Palmer GO-SHIP P6E NBP17-07 2017-08-20 17 US Alison Macdonald WHOI NB Palmer GO-SHIP I8S NBP18-02 2018-03-09 20 US Alex Orsi TAMU Thompson GO-SHIP I6S TN-366 2019-04-03 25 US Julia Wellner U. Houston NB Palmer ITGC (Thwaites) NBP20-02 2020-01-25 29 US Leticia Barbero NOAA/AOML Ron Brown GO-SHIP A13.5 RB-xx 2020-03-21 31 US Ken Halanych Auburn U. NB Palmer ICYINVERTS NBP20-09, 10 2020-10-08 32 UK Barney Balch Bigelow Revelle COCCO-SAMW21 RR2004 2020-12-26 33