FRV Clupea 0391C
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FRV Clupea (74CU) |
| Cruise identifier | 0391C |
| Cruise period | 1991-02-25 — 1991-03-06 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Buckie, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Ardrossan, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To collect water, sediment and benthos samples from two North Sea Task Force stations, one in the Minches and the other in the North Channel.
2. To collect samples of water, suspended particulate matter, sediment and sediment pore water from the Clyde estuary and the Inner and Outer Firths of the Clyde. |
| Chief scientist | Philip W Balls (Scottish Office Agriculture and Fisheries Department Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.07 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland Irish Sea and St. George's Channel |
| Specific | North Channel and Clyde Estuary |
| Track charts |  |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of stations = 24 Description: Go-Flo bottle casts |
| Chemical oceanography | |
| Oxygen | Quantity: number of stations = 24 Description: Go-Flo bottle casts |
| Phosphate | Quantity: number of stations = 24 Description: Go-Flo bottle casts |
| Nitrate | Quantity: number of stations = 24 Description: Go-Flo bottle casts |
| Ammonia | Quantity: number of stations = 24 Description: Go-Flo bottle casts |
| Silicate | Quantity: number of stations = 24 Description: Go-Flo bottle casts |
| Alkalinity | Quantity: number of stations = 24 Description: Go-Flo bottle casts |
| pH | Quantity: number of stations = 24 Description: Go-Flo bottle casts |
| Contamination | |
| Suspended matter | Quantity: number of stations = 24 Description: Go-Flo bottle casts |
| Trace metals | Quantity: number of stations = 24 Description: Go-Flo bottle casts |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Particulate organic matter (inc POC, PON) | Quantity: number of stations = 24 Description: Go-Flo bottle casts |
| Dissolved organic matter (inc DOC) | Quantity: number of stations = 24 Description: Go-Flo bottle casts |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Core - soft bottom | Quantity: number of cores = 8 Description: craib corer |
