RV Prince Madog PD16/01
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Prince Madog (74P2) |
| Cruise identifier | PD16/01 |
| Cruise period | 2001-11-26 — 2001-11-30 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Menai Bridge, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Menai Bridge, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | To conduct a survey of mass-specific inherent optical properties in coastal waters, using in situ measurements of absorption, beam attenuation and forward scattering, and an indirect method to determine the volume scattering function. The results of the survey are to be used to evaluate the effect of strong variations in the optically dominant class of suspended particles on marine reflectance. The objective of this particular cruise was to make measurements of the mass-specific optical properties in sediment dominant water (i.e. the Irish Sea) and determine how inorganic sediment affects marine reflectance.
A secondary objective of this particular cruise was to take grab samples along a transect from northwest Anglesey into the western Irish Sea. These grab samples are to form the basis of a final year student project. The project is examining changes in Formanifera sp along the transect to see if the species type and distribution changes across the western Irish Sea front. |
| Chief scientist | Sean Gaffney (University of Wales, Bangor School of Ocean Sciences) |
| Project | NERC Research Programme GR3/12903 |
| Cruise report |  (0.26 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Irish Sea and St. George's Channel |
| Specific | Western Irish Sea |
| Track charts | (0.18 MB) |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Optics (eg underwater light levels) | Quantity: number of stations = 24 Description: stations sampled for optical and suspended sediment measurements. |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Grab | Quantity: number of samples = 9 |
