Cruise Info. | |
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Ship name (ship code) | FRV Scotia (747S) |
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Cruise identifier | 10/62 |
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Cruise period | 1962-10-14 — 1962-10-31 |
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Status | Completed |
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Port of departure | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
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Port of return | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
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Purpose | Fisheries |
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Objectives | Hydrography, plankton, chemistry, trawling and productivity. |
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Chief scientist | James A Adams (Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
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Cruise report | (0.12 MB) |
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Ocean/sea areas | |
General | North Sea |
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Measurements | |
Physical oceanography | |
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Surface measurements underway (T,S) | Description: measurements at all stations |
Subsurface temperature and salinity measurements | Description: bottom measurements at all stations |
Current meters | Quantity: number of observations = 500 Description: bottom current markers |
Surface drifters/drifting buoys | Quantity: number of stations = 14 Description: drift bottles released |
Chemical oceanography | |
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Oxygen | Description: all station surface samples, selected bottom samples |
Phosphate | Description: all station surface samples, selected bottom samples |
Nitrate | Description: all station surface samples, selected bottom samples |
Silicate | Description: all station surface samples, selected bottom samples |
Biology and fisheries | |
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Primary productivity | Description: carbon bottom samples |
Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence) | Description: chlorophyll samples |
Phytoplankton | Description: Gulf III samples at all stations, selected 1m and standard net samples |
Zooplankton | Quantity: number of experiments = 3 Description: feeding |
Zooplankton | Description: Gulf III samples at all stations, selected 1m and standard net samples |
Pelagic fish | Description: Vinge trawls included haddock, whiting and herring |
Taggings | Quantity: number of specimens = 109 Description: 60 cod and 49 haddock |
Other biological/fisheries measurement | Description: whiting gall bladders preserved and cod examined for nematodes |
Geology and geophysics | |
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Single-beam echosounding | Description: run continuously |