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BODC Cruise Metadata Report for RV Cefas Endeavour (74E9) cruise 8/07

Introduction

This report collates information from the BODC cruise inventory and oceanographic databases. It presents

Cruise Inventory Information

Long name RV Cefas Endeavour (74E9) cruise 8/07
Short name 8/07
Objectives and Narrative Aims

1. Trial the use of the Plankton multinet.
2. Recover and redeploy landers at the three sites and additionally the smart buoys at the north dogger site.
3. Perform scanfish tows to give the water column context.
4. Sampling at frequent intervals (approx hourly) using CTD rosette at the 3 sites with LISST
5. CTD casts for Primary productivity estimates and deck incubations using N15 uptake.
6. Underway measurements for isotopic ratio work from continuous supply.
7. Collect Plankton samples for species composition using vertical nets.
8. Deployment of SPI camera over a wide range of sites to characterize inter site variability
9. Undertake assessment of benthic flora/fauna assemblage using Jennings beam trawls
10. Collect samples for isotope analysis of fish, fauna and flora using 2m bean
11. Collect core profiles, of nutrients, oxygen, chl-a. (NIOZ corer) and sediment profiles.
12. Undertake experiments on productivity and grazing at the three sites.

Narrative

Due to the problems with a crane, which hindered loading, Endeavour departed at revised time of 20:30 with a pallet truck for moving the Nioz corer and other heavy gear around the starboard area. The ship continued to the Gabbard, where a CTD was undertaken with nets, further nets where taken uneventful, and subsequent nets were performed at the half way stage to the Sean gas field site.

At the Sean gas field the recovery of the mooring was problematic. It is on position but after grappling it and retrieval the ground line and anchor, it is clear that serious corrosion had occurred. Following this, a CTD was taken to collect bottom waters and NIOZ coring was under taken until 20:00. There was problem with the CTD winch starting to haul in of its own accord. The emergency stop was pressed and worked. CTDs were then taken from 21:00. The cycle of hourly CTDs and Nets every 6 hours was undertaken until 09:00, when further grappling took place for
Ship RV Cefas Endeavour
Departure Port Lowestoft, United Kingdom
Departure Date 2007-04-17
Arrival Port Lowestoft, United Kingdom
Arrival Date 2007-04-25
Principal Scientist(s) Liam Fernand (Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science Lowestoft Laboratory)
Responsible Organisation Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science Lowestoft Laboratory
Associated Project(s)
IHB Sea Areas Visited North Sea
Marsden Squares Visited 216;1/216;3
Work Area Description Southern Bight, Oyster grounds and Central North Sea, Dogger Bank region
Unable to lookup cruise bounds at this time
Work Area Bounding Polygon
Southern Limit unknown
Northern Limit unknown
Western Limit unknown
Eastern Limit unknown

Cruise Inventory Datasets

No information on datasets is currently available for this cruise

Cruise Inventory Mooring/Buoy Operations

No information on datasets is currently available

Summary of BODC Data Holdings for the Cruise

National Oceanographic Database

Summary

# Series Instrument Description Parameters
1 Multiple instrument types Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in water bodies
Concentration of suspended particulate material in the water column
Date and time
Reference numbers
Salinity of the water column
Temperature of the water column
Vertical spatial coordinates
Visible waveband radiance and irradiance measurements in the water column
1 Multiple instrument types Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in water bodies
Concentration of suspended particulate material in the water column
Date and time
Dissolved oxygen parameters in the water column
Metadata parameters
Reference numbers
Salinity of the water column
Visible waveband radiance and irradiance measurements in the water column

Note: Parameter terms are taken from the BODC Parameter Discovery Vocabulary XML (SKOS)

Full List

BODC Reference Instrument Description Date/Time Location  
1167129 Multiple instrument types 2007-04-23 16:00Z to 2007-05-20 07:30Z 55° 40' N, 2° 16' E Click for more
1167246 Multiple instrument types 2007-04-23 16:00Z to 2007-05-01 01:00Z 55° 40' N, 2° 16' E Click for more

Project Database

No data currently held for this cruise in the BODC Project Database

References

Track Charts

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Reports

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