RV Pelagia PE366
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Pelagia (64PE) |
| Cruise identifier | PE366 |
| Cruise period | 2013-03-15 — 2013-03-25 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Het Horntje, Netherlands |
| Port of return | Het Horntje, Netherlands |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | CHARLET - Changes in resource limitation and energy transfer. Plankton biology study, with a major focus on phytoplankton, in the North Sea along a transect from coastal waters to the central North Sea. This cruise was part of a larger integrated study assessing the production, composition and losses of phytoplankton with the aim of determining the limiting factors for phytoplankton growth in the North Sea and studying how these limiting factors affect the food quality and species composition of the phytoplankton. This is the first of four cruises. |
| Chief scientist | Corina Brussaard (Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research) |
| Cruise report |  (1.38 MB) |
| NPRC | (0.08 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Track charts | (0.06 MB) |
