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RV Lough Foyle 2291H_1
Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |
Ship name (ship code) | RV Lough Foyle (74LG) |
Cruise identifier | 2291H_1 |
Cruise period | 1991-01-16 — 1991-01-25 |
Status | Completed |
Port of departure | Oban, United Kingdom |
Port of return | Oban, United Kingdom |
Purpose | Research |
Objectives | To deploy instruments on moorings and carry out physical, chemical and biological sampling. Loch Linnhe Project - Ref H22PT1 |
Chief scientist | Mike R Heath (Scottish Office Agriculture and Fisheries Department Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
Project | Loch Linnhe Project |
Cruise report | (0.09 MB) |
Ocean/sea areas | |
General | Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland |
Specific | Loch Linnhe |
Track charts | |
Measurements | |
Physical oceanography | |
Water bottle stations | Description: Multi parameter aries tows |
CTD stations | |
Transparency (eg transmissometer) | |
Optics (eg underwater light levels) | |
Other physical oceanographic measurements | Description: multi parameter aries tows |
Chemical oceanography | |
Oxygen | |
Phosphate | |
Total - P | |
Nitrate | |
Total - N | |
Ammonia | |
Silicate | |
Other chemical oceanographic measurements | |
Biology and fisheries | |
Primary productivity | |
Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence) | |
Particulate organic matter (inc POC, PON) | |
Phytoplankton | |
Zooplankton | |
Acoustic reflection on marine organisms. | |
Other biological/fisheries measurement | |
Geology and geophysics | |
Core - soft bottom | |
Multi-beam echosounding | |
Moorings, landers, buoys | |
Physical oceanography | |
Subsurface temperature measurements | 56° 32' 59" N 5° 30' 0" W — 2 60m |
Transparency (eg transmissometer) | 56° 32' 59" N 5° 30' 0" W — 5 transmissometers |
Optics (eg underwater light levels) | 56° 32' 59" N 5° 30' 0" W — 5 fluorimeters |
Current meters | 56° 32' 59" N 5° 30' 0" W — Loch Linnhe 9 cm |
Sea level (inc. bot. press., inverted echosounder) | 56° 32' 59" N 5° 30' 0" W — 3 wlr |
Chemical oceanography | |
Other chemical oceanographic measurements | 56° 32' 59" N 5° 30' 0" W — 5 nutrient analysers & NGT 16.1.91-22.2.91 |
Biology and fisheries | |
Sediment traps | 56° 32' 59" N 5° 30' 0" W — 2 auto sed traps |