Akademik Sergey Vavilov 44
Cruise plan
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | Akademik Sergey Vavilov (RUSG) |
| Cruise identifier | 44 |
| Cruise period | 2017-06-03 — 2017-07-12 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Gdansk, Poland |
| Port of return | Halifax, Canada |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | Specific goals of the cruise are to provide the description of thermohaline ocean structure; to monitor the spatiotemporal changes of transatlantic meridional water and heat transport, to investigate and evaluate the exchange in the northern part of the Atlantic Ocean. Geological researches aim to study Holocene - Upper Pleistocene climate and to estimate atmosphere - ocean - lithosphere matter exchange. |
| Chief scientist | Alex V Sokov (Russian Academy of Sciences, Shirshov Institute of Oceanology) |
| NPRC |  (0.13 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Atlantic Ocean |
| Specific | Two hydrographic sections between Shetland Islands and Iceland from 60.417N, 01.917W to 64.407N, 14.047W. Hydrographic section from 59.50N 04.60W to 59.95N, 43.00W |
