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FS Meteor M36/6
Cruise plan
Cruise Info. | |
Ship name (ship code) | FS Meteor (06M3) |
Cruise identifier | M36/6 |
Cruise period | 1996-10-09 — 1996-11-03 |
Status | Completed |
Port of departure | Vigo, Spain |
Port of return | Viana do Castelo, Portugal |
Purpose | Research |
Objectives | One of a series of cruises to the western European Basin within the frame of national German Deep-Sea programme. BIGSET-Biogeochemical fluxes of malte and energy in the deep sea and the MAST III-Programme. BENGAL-High resolution temporal and spatial study of the Benthic biology and Geochemistry of a northeastern Atlantic abyssal Locality. To two time series stations in 47° 11'N, 19° 34'W 4560m, (BIGSET) and 48° 50'N, 16° 30'W (BIGSET/BENGAL) |
Chief scientist | Olaf Pfannkuche (Research Center for Marine Geosciences, Kiel) |
Project | BIGSET, BENGAL, Germany/MAST III EC |
Ocean/sea areas | |
General | North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) |