FRV Scotia 2/69
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FRV Scotia (747S) |
| Cruise identifier | 2/69 |
| Cruise period | 1969-03-09 — 1969-03-27 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Objectives | Released 100 bottom current markers off the mouth of the River Ythan.
Trawled in the Buchan Deeps and worked a line of stations to the east or Orkney. There was an intention fo work a line of stations due east but abandoned due to adverse weather conditions. |
| Chief scientist | Richard B Burns (Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.23 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Bathythermograph | Quantity: number of profiles = 26 Description: mechanical |
| Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of stations = 25 Description: 8 T surface |
| Surface drifters/drifting buoys | Description: bottom |
| Chemical oceanography | |
| Phosphate | Quantity: 25 |
| Nitrate | Quantity: 25 |
| Nitrite | |
| Silicate | Quantity: 25 |
| Isotopes | Description: C |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence) | Quantity: 25 |
| Phytoplankton | Quantity: 33 |
