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Unknown self-propelled small boat RATS/NUT510
Cruise plan
Cruise Info. | |
Ship name (ship code) | Unknown self-propelled small boat (ZZ99) |
Cruise identifier | RATS/NUT510 |
Cruise period | 2003-05-08 — 2003-05-08 |
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 | |
Discrete samples | |
1 Water bottle hydrocast | Nitrite concentration parameters in the water column Phosphate concentration parameters in the water column Silicate concentration parameters in the water column Nitrate concentration parameters in the water column |