Seeker
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name | Seeker |
| Cruise period | 1993-03-19 — 1993-03-25 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Boston, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Boston, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1) To identify and quantify the fate of river borne nutrients entering the Wash by measuring a wide variety of parameters at five pre-determined sites
2) Samples were collected for nutrient flux, oxygen uptake, x-ray, grain size, intersitial pore water, porosity profile, chlorophyll, salinity and CNP determination No samples were collected on the 23 or the 24 due to bad weather conditions |
| Chief scientist | David Brian Sivyer (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.30 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Specific | The Wash. |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Surface measurements underway (T,S) | |
| Chemical oceanography | |
| Phosphate | Description: Samples collected for nutrient flux determination |
| Nitrate | Description: Samples collected for nutrient flux determination |
| Nitrite | Description: Samples collected for nutrient flux determination |
| Silicate | Description: Samples collected for nutrient flux determination |
| Contamination | |
| Suspended matter | |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence) |
