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The Princess Royal AE3
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | The Princess Royal (74M6) |
| Cruise identifier | AE3 |
| Cruise period | 2018-03-07 — 2018-03-07 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Blyth, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Blyth, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | The aim of the project is to deploy autonomous vehicles in the North Sea in order to demonstrate long term monitoring capability of ocean health.
This particular cruise deployed slocum glider named OMG-1 (unit 352) with a turbulence sensor and seaglider named Orca SG510 with a nutrient sensor for the project AlterECO. The gliders were deployed 50 miles from coast. No CTD calibrations were performed but a surface bucket sample was taken for analysis of S, Chl, nitrate and SPM. |
| Chief scientist | Matthew R Palmer (National Oceanography Centre, Liverpool) |
| Project | An Alternative Framework to Assess Marine Ecosystem Functioning in Shelf Seas (AlterEco) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Measurements | |
| Chemical oceanography | |
| Oxygen | Quantity: number of profiles = 4138 Description: Slocum Glider OMG-1 deployed (until 9/5/2018) with CTD, dissolved oxygen, microrider turbulance |
| Oxygen | Quantity: number of profiles = 1748 Description: UEA Seaglider Orca deployed (until 28/3/2018) with CTD, dissolved oxygen and Nitrate. |
| Nitrate | Quantity: number of samples = 1 Description: Surface bucket collection for nutrient analysis for calibration of Seaglider |
| Nitrate | Quantity: number of profiles = 1748 Description: UEA Seaglider Orca deployed (until 28/3/2018) with CTD, dissolved oxygen and Nitrate. |
| Nitrate | Quantity: number of profiles = 4138 Description: Slocum Glider OMG-1 deployed (until 9/5/2018) with CTD, dissolved oxygen, microrider turbulance |
| Moorings, landers, buoys | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Other physical oceanographic measurements | 55° 3' 6" N 1° 0' 1" W — Slocum Glider OMG-1 deployed (until 9/5/2018) with CTD, dissolved oxygen, microrider turbulance |
| Other physical oceanographic measurements | 55° 2' 59" N 1° 0' 1" W — UEA Seaglider Orca deployed (until 28/3/2018) with CTD, dissolved oxygen and Nitrate. |