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With this search interface you are able to query the online cruise inventory database and display the result of your query on screen. To toggle a detailed explanation of each specific search option click the '?' button of the respective option.

Free search	Use the 'free search' to find entries containing an occurrence of a word or simple phrase. Currently, this is restricted to following fields of the Cruise Summary Report database: ship name, cruise objectives, project, chief scientist, port of departure and port of return.   Character strings containing A-Z and 0-9 are supported. The search is not case sensitive.
Ship name	FRV Alba Na Mara (07-) RV Aora (85-03) RV Aora (03-) MV Briarthorn RV Calanus (80-) RV Cefas Endeavour (03-) RRS Challenger (73-00) RRS Charles Darwin (85-06) RV Cirolana (70-03) RV Clione (67-88) FRV Clupea (68-08) RV Corella (67-82) RV Corystes (88-) HMS Dalrymple (48-66) HMS Dampier (48-68) MV Dawn Sky (83-94) RRS Discovery (63-12) RV Eastella (88-90) RV Edward Forbes (72-79) RV Ernest Holt (67-70) FRV Explorer (66-84) RV Farnella (72-94) RRS Frederick Russell (82-88) RV G A Reay (85-86) FRV Goldseeker (67-89) MV Gorsethorn (77-89) HMS Hecate (69-90) HMS Hecla (64-97) HMS Hydra (66-86) RRS James Clark Ross (91-) RRS James Cook (06-) RRS John Biscoe (78-91) RRS John Murray (67-81) RV Lough Foyle (88-05) FRV Mara (58-80) RV Nucella (71-80) HMS Owen (49-65) RV Plymouth Quest (04-) RV Prince Madog (68-01) RV Prince Madog (01-) RV Sarsia (68-82) FRV Scotia (48-71) FRV Scotia (71-98) FRV Scotia (98-) RV Seol Mara (72-) RRS Shackleton (70-83) RV Starella (65-89) RV Tellina (67-81) HMS Vidal (54-71) MV Whitethorn (82-97) Refine your search for cruises conducted on a particular ship. Use the 'pull-down' list to choose one of the main ships. If multiple entries occur for a ship, the figures in the brackets indicate the time period when the ship was active, for example (88-04) means 1988 to 2004. If your ship of choice is not listed please use the 'free search' facility. The default is all ships.
Begin date	1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014   01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12   01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Refine your search by date. Choose a begin (set sail) and/or an end (return to port) date. If you select   A begin date and an end date — all cruises that span your start date, occur between your start and end dates or span your end date are returned. A begin date only — all cruises with a start date on or before your date and an end date after your date are returned. An end date only — all cruises with a start date on or before your date and an end date on or after your date are returned.   The default will match any cruise irrespective of the set sail and return to port dates.
End date	2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 1985 1984 1983 1982 1981 1980 1979 1978 1977 1976 1975 1974 1973 1972 1971 1970 1969 1968 1967 1966 1965 1964 1963 1962 1961 1960 1959 1958 1957 1956 1955 1954 1953 1952 1951 1950 1949 1948 1947   01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12   01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Refine your search by date. Choose a begin (set sail) and/or an end (return to port) date. If you select   A begin date and an end date — all cruises that span your start date, occur between your start and end dates or span your end date are returned. A begin date only — all cruises with a start date on or before your date and an end date after your date are returned. An end date only — all cruises with a start date on or before your date and an end date on or after your date are returned.   The default will match any cruise irrespective of the set sail and return to port dates.
Status	Completed Current Scheduled Cancelled Unknown Refine your search by the status of the cruise. You may select scheduled cruises planned for the future, current ongoing cruises, cancelled and completed cruises. The default is set to match any cruise irrespective of its status.
Ocean/sea area	Atlantic Ocean      North Atlantic Ocean          North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W)              Irish Sea and St. George's Channel              Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland              North Sea              Skagerrak              Bristol Channel              English Channel              Celtic Sea              Bay of Biscay              Gulf of Guinea          North West Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W)              Gulf of Mexico              Caribbean Sea      South Atlantic Ocean          South East Atlantic Ocean (limit 20W)          South West Atlantic Ocean (limit 20W) Mediterranean Sea      Mediterranean Sea - Western basin          Strait of Gibraltar (Mediterranean Sea)          Tyrrhenian Sea (Mediterranean Sea)      Mediterranean Sea - Eastern basin          Ionian Sea (Mediterranean Sea)          Adriatic Sea (Mediterranean Sea)          Aegean Sea (The Archipelago) (Mediterranean Sea)      Black Sea Baltic Sea      Kattegat, Sound and Belts Arctic Ocean      East Siberian Sea      The Northwestern Passages - Baffin Bay      Arctic Ocean - Lincoln Sea      Beaufort Sea      Laptev Sea (or Nordenskjold Sea)      Kara Sea      Barents Sea      Greenland Sea      Norwegian Sea      Davis Strait      Labrador Sea (Davis Strait) Southern Ocean Pacific Ocean      North Pacific Ocean          North East Pacific Ocean (limit 180W)              Gulf of Alaska          North West Pacific Ocean (limit 180W)              Sea of Okhotsk              Japan Sea              Bering Sea              Philippine Sea      South Pacific Ocean          South East Pacific Ocean (limit 140W)          South West Pacific Ocean (limit 140W)              Solomon Sea              Coral Sea              Tasman Sea South China Sea (Nan Hai)      Gulf of Thailand (Siam) East Indian Archipelago (Indonesia)      Makassar Strait (East Indian Archipelago)      Java Sea (East Indian Archipelago) Indian Ocean      Mozambique Channel (Indian Ocean)      Laccadive Sea      Bay of Bengal      Great Australian Bight      Red Sea      Gulf of Aden      Gulf of Iran (Persian Gulf)      Gulf of Oman      Arabian Sea Unknown Refine your search for cruises in a particular sea area. Select your area(s) of interest. To select more than one sea area use Control+click or Shift+click as appropiate. You may also use Control+click to deselect an area. The default is set to match any cruise irrespective of its sea area.   The names and limits of oceans and seas presented are a subset taken from the 3rd Edition of International Hydrographic Bureau (IHB) Special Publication No.23 published in 1953. The list is generated dynamically depending on data in the database.
Discipline	All Physical oceanography Chemical oceanography Contaminants Biology and fisheries Meteorology Geology and geophysics Refine your search for cruises collecting data for a particular discipline. Having selected your discipline, the options available in the data type section will be automatically updated. The default is all disciplines.
Data type	Surface measurements underway (T,S) Bathythermograph Water bottle stations CTD stations Subsurface measurements underway (T,S) Thermistor chain Transparency (eg transmissometer) Optics (eg underwater light levels) Geochemical tracers (eg freons) Current meters Current profiler (eg ADCP) Currents measured from ship drift GEK Surface drifters/drifting buoys Neutrally buoyant floats Sea level (inc. bot. press., inverted echosounder) Instrumented wave measurements Other physical oceanographic measurements Oxygen Carbon dioxide Other dissolved gases Phosphate Total - P Nitrate Nitrite Total - N Ammonia Silicate Alkalinity pH Trace elements Radioactivity Isotopes Other chemical oceanographic measurements Suspended matter Trace metals Petroleum residues Chlorinated hydrocarbons Other dissolved substances Bottom deposits Contaminants in organisms Other contaminant measurements Primary productivity Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence) Particulate organic matter (inc POC, PON) Dissolved organic matter (inc DOC) Biochemical measurements (eg lipids, amino acids) Sediment traps Phytoplankton Zooplankton Seston Neuston Nekton Eggs and larvae Pelagic bacteria/micro-organisms Benthic bacteria/micro-organisms Phytobenthos Zoobenthos Birds Mammals and reptiles Pelagic fish Demersal fish Molluscs Crustaceans Acoustic reflection on marine organisms Taggings Gear research Exploratory fishing Other biological/fisheries measurement Upper air observations Incident radiation Occasional standard measurements Routine standard measurements Atmospheric chemistry Other meteorological measurements Dredge Grab Core - rock Core - soft bottom Bottom photography In-situ seafloor measurement/sampling Geophysical measurements made at depth Single-beam echosounding Multi-beam echosounding Long/short range side scan sonar Single channel seismic reflection Multichannel seismic reflection Seismic refraction Gravity measurements Magnetic measurements Other geological/geophysical measurements Refine your search for cruises which collected a particular data type. To select more than one data type use Control+click or Shift+click as appropiate. You may also use Control+click to deselect a data type. The default is all data types.   View all data types and their disciplines  (106 KB).
Host laboratory	ABDN-GPG ACE CRC AORI Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research BHAM-GEOPHY BHAM-GEOSCI BORDEAUX Bangor University School of Ocean Sciences Bedford Institute of Oceanography Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences Biological Institute Helgoland British Antarctic Survey British Geological Survey, Edinburgh Bundesamt für Seeschiffahrt und Hydrographie CEFAS Lowestoft Laboratory CEFAS Weymouth CICESE COM-LOB_Luminy CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research (Hobart) Camborne School of Mines, Cornwall Cardiff EOS Chelsea College London Department of Geology Cherbourg-Octeville Radioecology Laboratory City of London University DAFS Aberdeen Marine Laboratory DARDNI DTU Aqua Danish Institute for Fisheries Research Danish Post and Telegraph, Copenhagen, Denmark Defence Evaluation and Research Agency Winfrith Defence Research Agency Winfrith Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada Department of Trade and Industry Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory ED-GEO2 EOS-UBC Far Eastern Regional Hydrometeorological Research Institute Faroe Marine Research Institute Faroe Museum of Natural History Faroes Fisheries Laboratory Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources Federal Research Centre for Fisheries, Hamburg Fisheries Research Services Aberdeen Marine Laboratory Florida University Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, Frankfurt, Germany Fugro GEOS Limited GEMS Survey Ltd Gatty Marine Laboratory Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen Heriot Watt University School of Life Sciences Hydraulics Research Station IFM-GEOMAR Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences, Kiel IFREMER (Brest) IFREMER - Headquarters IGES IHF III IITR IMARES, IJmuiden INSU-CNRS IO RAS IOPAN IRD-NC Imperial College London Department of Geology Imperial College London Department of Physics Indian National Institute of Oceanography Institut Polaire Français Paul-Emile Victor Institute for Marine Science, Kiel Institute of Coastal Oceanography and Tides Institute of Geological Sciences, Edinburgh Institute of Low Temperature Sciences, Hokkaido University Institute of Marine Environmental Research, Plymouth Institute of Marine Research, Norway Institute of Marine Research, Vigo Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Bidston Laboratory Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Deacon Laboratory Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Taunton Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Wormley Laboratory Instituto Español de Oceanografía Instituto Hidrografico, Portugal Istituto per lo studio dell'Oceanografia Fisica J Craig Venter Institute East Coast Campus James Rennell Centre for Ocean Circulation Joint Nature Conservation Committee Peterborough Office LODYC LRFA Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Environnement Marin Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et l'Environnement Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Liverpool Earth and Ocean Sciences Liège AGO MAFF Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory MARTEC MFRC MIT-CEE MSI MUMM Management Unit of the North Sea Mathematical Models Manchester SEAES MarinX Consultancy Marine Biological Association of the UK Marine Institute Galway Marine Pollution Div., Warren Spring Laboratory Marine Research Institute, Reykjavik Marine Scotland Aberdeen Marine Laboratory Marum Max Planck Inst. Fur Meteorologie, Hamburg,Germany Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies Natural Resources Department Miami University Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Man. & Fisheries Ministry of Defence, Hydrographic Dept. NCFS Tromsø NEW-DMSCM NEW-MST NIWA-OTAGO NIWA-W NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory NOAA-AOML NUIG National Institute of Oceanography National Marine Facilities Sea Systems National Ocean Service, USA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Oceanography Centre, Liverpool National Oceanography Centre, Southampton National Science Foundation National Tidal Facility, Flinders University National University of Ireland, Galway Netherlands Institute for Fisheries Research, IJmuiden New Zealand Defence Scientific Establishment New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Norwegian Meteorological Institute Nova Southeastern University, Florida OGS ORSTOM OSU COAS OU-DEES Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo Old Dominion University Department of Ocean, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Physical Research Laboratory at Ahmedabad Plymouth Marine Laboratory Plymouth Polytechnic Institute of Marine Studies Polar Res. Ins. of Mar. Fisheries & Ocean. Russia Polytechnic South West Institute of Marine Studies Post Office Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory QMUL-SBCS QUB Research Center for Marine Geosciences, Kiel Research Vessel Services Rijks Instituut voor Kust en Zee, Netherlands (RIKZ) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science Royal Danish Administration of Navigation & Hydrography Royal Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research Royal Netherlands Meteological Institute SOAEFD Aberdeen Marine Laboratory SOAFD Aberdeen Marine Laboratory SOES Saclant Undersea Research Centre, La Spezia, Italy Scott Polar Research Institute Scottish Association for Marine Science Scottish Marine Biological Association Scripps Institution of Oceanography Sea Education Association Sea Fish Industry Authority Sea Mammal Research Unit Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science Southampton Oceanography Centre Swansea Geology Televerkets Byggnadsavdelning, Stockholm, Sweden Texas A&M Department of Oceanography Thünen Institute of Sea Fisheries, Hamburg Trinity College Dublin UEA Environmental Sciences UK Meteorological Office ULB Chemical Oceanography URI-GSO US Geol. Survey, Branch of Pacific Marine Geology USC-EOS Uni. of Alaska, Institute of Marine Sciences United Kingdom Ocean Research Services United States Geological Survey Center for Coastal and Marine Geology University College Cardiff Geology Department University College London Department of Geography University of Aarhus Bioscience Institute University of Aberdeen, Oceanlab University of Aberdeen, School of Biological Sciences University of Bath Department of Physics University of Bergen, Department of Earth Science University of Birmingham Department of Geology University of Birmingham School of Earth Sciences University of Bristol - Department of Earth Sciences University of Bristol Geology Department University of Cambridge Department of Earth Sciences University of Durham, Department of Earth Sciences University of Durham, Department of Geological Sciences University of Edinburgh Department of Geology University of Edinburgh School of GeoSciences University of Exeter Department of Geology University of Gent Department of Biology University of Glasgow Department of Geology University of Hamburg Institute of Geophysics University of Hamburg, Department of Chemistry University of Hamburg, Institute of Oceanography University of Hull Department of Geography University of Keele Department of Geology University of Kiel University of Leeds Department of Earth Sciences University of Leeds School of Earth and Environment University of Leicester Department of Geology University of Liverpool Department of Earth Sciences University of Liverpool Department of Oceanography University of Liverpool Port Erin Marine Laboratory University of Maine School of Marine Sciences University of Newcastle School of Biology University of Newcastle School of Physics University of Oxford Department of Earth Sciences University of Oxford Department of Zoology University of Plymouth Institute of Marine Studies University of Southampton Department of Oceanography University of Stirling Department of Biology University of Strathclyde, Department of Physics University of Sydney Institute of Marine Science University of Tasmania, Australia University of Wales Aberystwyth Department of Geology University of Wales Swansea Natural Sciences University of Wales, Bangor School of Ocean Sciences University of Washington School of Oceanography University of York Department of Chemistry University of the Azores Department of Oceanography and Fisheries Unknown WHOI Marine Chemistry WHOI Physical Oceanography Western Brittany University Wimereux Zoological Society of London Institute of Zoology Refine your search for cruises that were coordinated by a particular laboratory. In the event of a laboratory name change queries for past cruises will require searches under any prior names. To select more than one laboratory use Control+click or Shift+click as appropiate. You may also use Control+click to deselect a laboratory. The default is all laboratories.
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