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RV Cirolana CIR7/73
Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |
Ship name (ship code) | RV Cirolana (74CZ) |
Cruise identifier | CIR7/73 |
Cruise period | 1973-08-17 — 1973-09-12 |
Status | Completed |
Port of departure | Grimsby, United Kingdom |
Port of return | Grimsby, United Kingdom |
Purpose | Research |
Objectives | 1. To take part in the International 0-group survey of the Barents Sea.
2. To sample benthos north and west of Spitsbergen. 3. To make nanoplankton studies. |
Chief scientist | R W Blacker (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
Cruise report | (0.15 MB) |
Ocean/sea areas | |
General | Barents Sea |
Measurements | |
Physical oceanography | |
Bathythermograph | Quantity: number of profiles = 6 |
Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of stations = 24 Description: 10 with T only |
Biology and fisheries | |
Primary productivity | Quantity: number of stations = 19 |
Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence) | |
Phytoplankton | Quantity: number of stations = 19 |
Pelagic bacteria/micro-organisms | Quantity: number of samples = 38 |
Zoobenthos | Quantity: number of hauls = 11 |
Pelagic fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 112 |
Demersal fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 112 |
Other biological/fisheries measurement | Quantity: activity duration in days = 25 Description: Continuous measurement of deep scattering layers |
Meteorology | |
Occasional standard measurements | |
Other meteorological measurements | Description: sea and swell |
Other meteorological measurements | Description: ice observations |