Unknown self-propelled small boat RATS/CTD1067
Cruise plan
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | Unknown self-propelled small boat (ZZ99) |
| Cruise identifier | RATS/CTD1067 |
| Cruise period | 2009-03-11 — 2009-03-11 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Rothera, Antarctica |
| Port of return | Rothera, Antarctica |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | The RaTS programme (Rothera Oceanographic and Biological Time Series) involves the long term monitoring of a nearshore marine environment and is focussed around two broad aims, 1) Provide a suite of oceanographic data that would provide environmental background to aid interpretation of the nearshore marine ecology and 2) Test a series of broad hypotheses concerning the pelagic-benthic coupling and environmental forcing of the nearshore environment. On an approximate weekly basis, an upper water column CTD cast is deployed with a discrete water sample taken at 15m. The water sample is analysed for macronutrients, chlorophyll, dissolved organic carbon, oxygen isotopes and microbial community. |
| Chief scientist | Andrew Clarke (British Antarctic Survey) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | South Atlantic Ocean |
| Specific | Ryder Bay northern Marguerite Bay Antarctica |
| Data held at BODC | Get data |
| Series/Profiles | |
| 1 CTD/STD cast | |
| Discrete samples | |
| 1 CTD frame plus rosette sampler | Nitrate concentration parameters in the water column Nitrite concentration parameters in the water column Phosphate concentration parameters in the water column Silicate concentration parameters in the water column Ammonium and ammonia concentration parameters in water bodies |
