RV Clione CLI11/77
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Clione (74CN) |
| Cruise identifier | CLI11/77 |
| Cruise period | 1977-09-01 — 1977-09-13 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1a. To collect sediment samples from Liverpool Bay for microbiological
analysis. 1b. To collect fish and benthos from Liverpool Bay for chemical analysis. 2a. To collect sediment samples from Site Z (spoil ground) in Liverpool Bay for Benthic, physical, chemical and microbiological analysis. 2b. To collect benthos from Site Z for, chemical analysis. 3a. To collect sediment samples from Bristol Channel for, microbiological analysis. 3b. To collect fish and benthos from Bristol Channel for chemical analysis. 4a. To collect sediment samples from the South Falls area for benthic, physical and chemicaL analysis. 4b. To collect fish and benthos from the South Falls area for chemical analysis. |
| Chief scientist | Michael S Rolfe (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Burnham Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.17 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea Irish Sea and St. George's Channel |
| Track charts |  |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Current meters | Quantity: number of deployments = 1 Description: 26 hours;half-hourly DRCM readings at 10m and 20m from bottom |
| Contamination | |
| Trace metals | Quantity: number of samples = 135 |
| Bottom deposits | Quantity: number of samples = 114 |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Particulate organic matter (inc POC, PON) | Quantity: number of samples = 270 |
| Zoobenthos | Quantity: number of hauls = 21 Description: survey:population structures,monitoring etc. |
| Demersal fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 9 |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Grab | Quantity: number of samples = 135 Description: physical/chemical analysis of sediments |
