RV Cirolana CIR9B/76
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Cirolana (74CZ) |
| Cruise identifier | CIR9B/76 |
| Cruise period | 1976-10-04 — 1976-10-29 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Liverpool, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Immingham, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To collect samples from the North Atlantic, Greenland Sea and
Norwegian Sea for dissolved metal analysis. (AB.1.2.) 2. Concurrent with Aim 1, samples to be filtered and the particulate matter to be analysed for metals by X-ray fluorescence techniques (Edinburgh University). 3. To collect 2700 l I t r e s of sea water in the North Atlantic for the International Standard Sea Water Service at I. 0. S. Wormley. 4. To recover current meter rigs at Stations NEI, NE2, NE3, NE4, JONSIS 1 and JONSIS 2, and to relay JGfJSIS 1 and JONSIS 2 (E.3.3.). 5. To collect samples for Caesium analysis in the Norwegian Sea and North Sea. |
| Chief scientist | A R Folkard (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.18 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea Irish Sea and St. George's Channel North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) |
| Track charts |  |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Surface measurements underway (T,S) | Description: T only |
| Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of stations = 9 |
| Current meters | Quantity: number of deployments = 6 |
| Chemical oceanography | |
| Oxygen | Quantity: number of stations = 9 |
| Phosphate | Quantity: number of stations = 9 |
| Nitrate | Quantity: number of stations = 9 |
| Silicate | Quantity: number of stations = 9 |
| Trace elements | Quantity: number of stations = 9 |
| Isotopes | Quantity: number of samples = 42 |
| Meteorology | |
| Occasional standard measurements | |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Other geological/geophysical measurements | Quantity: number of stations = 9 Description: analysis of suspended sediments for metals and carbon by X-ray |
