RV Lough Foyle LF/20/99
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Lough Foyle (74LG) |
| Cruise identifier | LF/20/99 |
| Cruise period | 1999-05-16 — 1999-05-18 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Belfast, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Belfast, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To assess zooplankton populations at stations 38A and 47.
2. To assess temperature, salinity and nutrient distributions over depth at stations 38A and 47. 3. To acquire daily sub surface samples using an automated sampler attached to a guard buoy. |
| Chief scientist | Brian Stewart (Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland) |
| Cruise report |  (0.25 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Irish Sea and St. George's Channel |
| Specific | Western Irish Sea and Dundalk Bay |
| Measurements | |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Zooplankton | Quantity: number of deployments = 1 Description: Rosette water sampler, zooplankton nets and sediment corer were all dispatched, before being hauled at Dundalk Bay. |
| Moorings, landers, buoys | |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence) | 53° 46' 51" N 5° 38' 4" W — The instrument mooring was recovered, inspected, serviced and reprogrammed. An additional nutrient water sampler was added to the buoy before it was redeployed. |
