RV Edward Forbes B/12/74
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Edward Forbes (74EF) |
| Cruise identifier | B/12/74 |
| Cruise period | 1974-07-12 — 1974-07-18 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Barry, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Barry, United Kingdom |
| Objectives | Bristol Channel survey cruise |
| Chief scientist | William W Brown (Institute of Marine Environmental Research, Plymouth) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Irish Sea and St. George's Channel Bristol Channel |
| Track charts |  |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of stations = 189 |
| CTD stations | Quantity: number of stations = 189 |
| Transparency (eg transmissometer) | Quantity: 113 |
| Current meters | Quantity: 3 |
| Sea level (inc. bot. press., inverted echosounder) | Quantity: activity duration in hours = 40 |
| Chemical oceanography | |
| Phosphate | Quantity: 189 |
| Total - P | Quantity: 189 |
| Nitrate | Quantity: 189 |
| Nitrite | Quantity: 189 |
| Silicate | Quantity: 189 |
| Trace elements | Quantity: 189 |
| Radioactivity | Quantity: number of samples = 5 |
| Contamination | |
| Suspended matter | Quantity: 189 |
| Trace metals | Quantity: 189 |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Primary productivity | Quantity: 16 |
| Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence) | Quantity: 185 |
| Particulate organic matter (inc POC, PON) | Quantity: 372 |
| Dissolved organic matter (inc DOC) | Quantity: 186 Description: identification, distribution |
| Phytoplankton | Quantity: 177 |
| Zooplankton | Quantity: 177 Description: 11 trace elements and organochlorines |
| Zoobenthos | Quantity: 2 |
| Meteorology | |
| Other meteorological measurements | Quantity: number of observations = 186 Description: sea and swell |
| Data held at BODC | |
| Discrete samples | |
| 57 General station with STD/bottles/additional instruments | Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in water bodies Concentration of suspended particulate material in the water column Dissolved metal concentrations in the water column Particulate total and organic nitrogen concentrations in the water column Salinity of the water column Phaeopigment concentrations in the water column Temperature of the water column Particulate total and organic carbon concentrations in the water column |
| 57 Lowestoft Sampler | Zooplankton non taxonomy-related abundance per unit volume of the water column Fish morphology, age and physiology Fish abundance in water bodies Zooplankton taxonomy-related abundance per unit volume of the water column |
