FRV Clupea 0396C
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FRV Clupea (74CU) |
| Cruise identifier | 0396C |
| Cruise period | 1996-02-21 — 1996-03-07 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Fraserburgh, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Fraserburgh, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To undertake a RoxAnn survey from Cape Wrath to Barra Head. On the completion of this work, the vessel will return to specific areas in the Minch and repeat the survey.
2. To record surface temperature, salinity and fluorometric data from the survey area. 3. To ground-truth the acoustic data and to collect grab and Agassiz trawl samples from the sedimentary zones defined by RoxAnn. |
| Chief scientist | Michael R Robertson (Scottish Office Agriculture Environment and Fisheries Department Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.07 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland |
| Specific | N and S Minches |
| Track charts |  |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Surface measurements underway (T,S) | Quantity: track kilometres = 1000 |
| Chemical oceanography | |
| Phosphate | Quantity: number of samples = 390 |
| Nitrate | Quantity: number of samples = 390 |
| Ammonia | Quantity: number of samples = 390 |
| Silicate | Quantity: number of samples = 390 |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence) | Quantity: number of samples = 39 Description: for Fluor. cals |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Single-beam echosounding | Quantity: track kilometres = 1000 Description: RoxAnn 38 kHz |
