RV Cefas Endeavour 07/18
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Cefas Endeavour (74E9) |
| Cruise identifier | 07/18 |
| Cruise period | 2018-05-07 — 2018-05-13 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | Aims
1. Service SmartBuoys at Dowsing, Warp and West Gabbard2. 2. Vattenfall Norfolk Vanguard: Waverider service, lander deployment, multibeam, grab and water sampling. 3. Vattenfall Norfolk Boreas: deployment of Waverider, lander, 2 guard buoys, multibeam, grab and water sampling. 4. AlterEco: deployment Wave Glider; deployments seagliders and Slocum Glider; zooplankton net hauls. 5. Service Waverider at Dowsing and West Gabbard2. 6. Service noise landers at Dowsing and Warp. 7. Collection of zooplankton samples to test presence of microsporidia lineages in copepods. 8. Collection of zooplankton sample at West Gabbard for community composition analysis. 9. Integration of a Cefas water sampler with the Ferrybox system for the collection of nutrients and phytoplankton samples. Narrative in attached cruise report. |
| Chief scientist | Elisa Capuzzo (Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science Lowestoft Laboratory) |
| Cruise programme |  (0.15 MB) |
| Cruise report | (0.34 MB) (0.19 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Specific | Southern North Sea (Dowsing, Warp, West Gabbard) |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| CTD stations | Quantity: number of profiles = 6 Description: Calibration CTD following deployment of the above gliders. |
| Subsurface temperature and salinity measurements | Quantity: number of samples = 3 Description: Niskin bottle collection for salinity for calibration of both gliders/CTD. |
| Other physical oceanographic measurements | Quantity: number of recoveries = 1 Description: Slocum Glider Stella recovered with CTD, Chl Fluorescence, Backscatter, CDOM, dissolved oxygen. |
| Other physical oceanographic measurements | Quantity: number of recoveries = 1 Description: UEA Seaglider Melonhead recovered with CTD, Chl Fluorescence, Backscatter, CDOM, dissolved oxygen, PAR |
| Other physical oceanographic measurements | Quantity: number of deployments = 1 Description: Cefas Wave glider Lyra deployed |
| Other physical oceanographic measurements | Quantity: number of deployments = 1 Description: UEA Seaglider Orca deployed with CTD, Chl Fluorescence, Backscatter, CDOM, dissolved oxygen and Nitrate. |
| Other physical oceanographic measurements | Quantity: number of deployments = 1 Description: Slocum Glider Cabot deployed with CTD, Chl Fluorescence, Backscatter, CDOM, dissolved oxygen, PAR. |
| Other physical oceanographic measurements | Quantity: number of recoveries = 1 Description: Slocum Glider OMG-1 recovered with CTD, dissolved oxygen, microrider turbulance |
| Other physical oceanographic measurements | Quantity: number of deployments = 1 Description: UEA Seaglider Humpback deployed with CTD, Chl Fluorescence, Backscatter, CDOM, dissolved oxygen, PAR |
| Chemical oceanography | |
| Oxygen | Quantity: number of samples = 6 Description: Niskin bottle collection for dissolved oxygen analysis for calibration of both gliders/CTD |
| Nitrate | Quantity: number of samples = 6 Description: Niskin bottle collection for nutrient analysis for calibration of Seaglider |
| Contamination | |
| Suspended matter | Quantity: number of samples = 6 Description: Niskin bottle collection for dissolved SPM for calibration of both gliders/CTD. |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence) | Quantity: number of samples = 6 Description: Niskin bottle collection for bulk chlorophyll for calibration of both gliders/CTD. |
| Zooplankton | Quantity: number of hauls = 24 Description: Ring-net sample collection for microscopic identification of zooplankton samples. |
| Acoustic reflection on marine organisms. | Quantity: activity duration in days = 21 Description: Waveglider fisheries acoustics |
