Unknown self-propelled small boat RATS/CTD1185
Cruise plan
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | Unknown self-propelled small boat (ZZ99) |
| Cruise identifier | RATS/CTD1185 |
| Cruise period | 2010-05-25 — 2010-05-25 |
| 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 |
