Campaign Summary Report - SAMBAR - Brazil (2022-07-28) to Brazil (202-08-11) on board AtlantECO flagship RV Alpha Crucis

As part of the AtlantECO flagship cruises, surveys for sampling planktonic microorganisms of the South Atlantic Ocean were conducted in partnership with the SAMBAR project, which aimed to investigate the interannual variability of the heat content and the meridional transports across the South Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (SAMOC). XBTs and CTD casts, deployment and redeployment of  PIES/CPIES moorings on the seafloor and sampling of marine microbiomes were performed during the cruise.  The campaign was conducted by 15 scientists and a crew of 18 people on board R/V Alpha Crucis, the research vessel of the Oceanographic Institute of the University of São Paulo (Brazil). The campaign covered the coordinates 27.5° - 34.5°S, 50.5° - 44.3°W, from July 28^th to August 11^th, 2022.