[GP17-ANT Event Log] - Scientific sampling event log from the US GEOTRACES GP17-ANT cruise in the Amundsen Sea on RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer (NBP2401) from November 2023 to January 2024 (US GEOTRACES GP17 Section: Amundsen Sea Sector of the Antarctic Continental Margin (GP17-ANT))

The U.S. GEOTRACES GP17-ANT expedition departed Punta Arenas, Chile on November 29th, 2023 and arrived in Lyttelton, New Zealand on January 28th, 2024. The cruise took place in the Amundsen Sea with a team of 35 scientists led by Peter Sedwick (Old Dominion University), Phoebe Lam (University of California, Santa Cruz), and Robert Sherrell (Rutgers University).

GP17 was planned as a two-leg expedition, with its first leg (GP17-OCE) as a southward extension of the 2018 GP15 Alaska-Tahiti expedition and this second leg (GP17-ANT) into coastal and shelf waters of Antarctica's Amundsen Sea.