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FRV Scotia 9/78
Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |
Ship name (ship code) | FRV Scotia (749S) |
Cruise identifier | 9/78 |
Cruise period | 1978-08-22 — 1978-09-13 |
Status | Completed |
Port of departure | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
Port of return | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
Purpose | Research |
Objectives | Measurements of temperature, salinity, oxygen, nutrients, chlorophyll and plankton in the Northwestern North Sea, Fair Isle Channel, Faroe-Shetland Channel, Rockall Trough and seas north and west of Scotland. Current meter deployments. |
Chief scientist | Harry D Dooley (Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
Ocean/sea areas | |
General | North Sea North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) |
Specific | Northwestern North Sea, Fair Isle Channel, Faroe-Shetland Channel, Rockall Trough, north and west of Scotland |
Track charts | |
Measurements | |
Physical oceanography | |
Surface measurements underway (T,S) | Quantity: activity duration in days = 22 |
Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of stations = 172 |
CTD stations | Quantity: number of stations = 109 |
Transparency (eg transmissometer) | |
Current meters | Quantity: number of deployments = 4 Description: 3x14 day records and 1x90 day record. |
Chemical oceanography | |
Oxygen | Quantity: number of stations = 41 |
Phosphate | Quantity: number of stations = 24 |
Nitrate | Quantity: number of stations = 107 |
Silicate | Quantity: number of stations = 10 |
Other chemical oceanographic measurements | Quantity: number of stations = 41 Description: other measurements |
Contamination | |
Trace metals | |
Biology and fisheries | |
Primary productivity | |
Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence) | Quantity: number of stations = 116 |
Particulate organic matter (inc POC, PON) | |
Phytoplankton | Quantity: number of stations = 55 |
Zooplankton | Quantity: number of stations = 13 Description: distribution |