RV Falkor FK003a
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Falkor (CIFR) |
| Cruise identifier | FK003a |
| Cruise period | 2012-07-02 — 2012-07-28 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Unknown, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Nuuk, Greenland |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | High-resolution sampling of plankton taxa, marine snow, and environmental variables across the north Atlantic subpolar gyre. Acoustic data, deep CTD casts and plankton net tows were made at daily stations along the transect. |
| Chief scientist | Cabell S Davis (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Department of Biology) |
| Cruise report |  (20 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Atlantic Ocean |
| Specific | Transect from UK to Greenland |
