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RV Sea Vigil SV29C
Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |
Ship name (ship code) | RV Sea Vigil (74S9) |
Cruise identifier | SV29C |
Cruise period | 1996-03-13 — 1996-03-13 |
Status | Completed |
Port of departure | Goole, United Kingdom |
Port of return | Grimsby, United Kingdom |
Purpose | Research |
Objectives | RV Sea Vigil organic micropollutant survey. |
Chief scientist | Duncan Plummer (Plymouth Marine Laboratory) |
Project | LOIS (RACS) |
Cruise report | (1.80 MB) |
Ocean/sea areas | |
General | North Sea |
Specific | Humber Estuary and feeder rivers |
Measurements | |
Physical oceanography | |
Surface measurements underway (T,S) | Description: Surface waters monitored using the NRAs system to record the standard variables. |
Transparency (eg transmissometer) | Description: Surface waters monitored using the NRAs system to record the standard variables. |
Optics (eg underwater light levels) | Description: Surface waters monitored using the NRAs system to record the standard variables. |
Chemical oceanography | |
Oxygen | Description: Surface waters monitored using the NRAs system to record the standard variables. |
Contamination | |
Suspended matter | Description: Samples collected for suspended particle characteristics. |
Other contaminant measurements | Quantity: number of stations = 8 Description: Samples of water, sediment and suspended particles collected for determination of organic micropollutants. |
Biology and fisheries | |
Dissolved organic matter (inc DOC) | Description: Samples collected for DOC analysis as part of survey work. |
Data held at BODC | |
Discrete samples | |
9 Water bottle hydrocast | Concentration of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the water column Salinity of the water column Temperature of the water column Dissolved oxygen parameters in the water column Pesticide concentrations in water bodies Concentration of other organic contaminants in the water column Concentration of polychlorobiphenyls (PCBs) in the water column Alkalinity, acidity and pH of the water column |