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RV Lough Foyle LF11/91
Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |
Ship name (ship code) | RV Lough Foyle (74LG) |
Cruise identifier | LF11/91 |
Cruise period | 1991-11-08 — 1991-11-15 |
Status | Completed |
Port of departure | Oban, United Kingdom |
Port of return | Oban, United Kingdom |
Purpose | Research |
Objectives | Hydrographic survey of Loch Linnhe |
Chief scientist | Steven J Hay (Scottish Office Agriculture and Fisheries Department Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
Project | Loch Linnhe |
Coordinating body | SOAFD 078 |
Cruise report | (0.10 MB) |
Ocean/sea areas | |
General | Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland |
Specific | Loch Linnhe |
Track charts | (0.03 MB) |
Measurements | |
Physical oceanography | |
Water bottle stations | |
CTD stations | |
Subsurface temperature and salinity measurements | |
Transparency (eg transmissometer) | |
Optics (eg underwater light levels) | |
Current meters | Quantity: number of deployments = 1 |
Other physical oceanographic measurements | Description: multi parameter tows of aries |
Chemical oceanography | |
Oxygen | |
Phosphate | |
Nitrate | |
Total - N | |
Ammonia | |
Other chemical oceanographic measurements | |
Biology and fisheries | |
Primary productivity | |
Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence) | |
Particulate organic matter (inc POC, PON) | |
Biochemical measurements (eg lipids, amino acids) | |
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° 31' 59" N 5° 32' 59" W — 5 transmissometers |
Optics (eg underwater light levels) | 56° 32' 59" N 5° 30' 0" W — 5 fluorimeters |
Current meters | 56° 51' 0" N 5° 11' 30" W — 10CM |
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 |
Biology and fisheries | |
Sediment traps | 56° 32' 59" N 5° 30' 0" W — 2 auto sed traps |