The Princess Royal AE5
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | The Princess Royal (74M6) |
| Cruise identifier | AE5 |
| Cruise period | 2018-09-28 — 2018-09-28 |
| 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.
Objectives 1. Deploy 1 submarine glider; NOC-MARS Slocum unit 444 (OMG-Kelvin) 2. Recover 2 submarine gliders; NOC-MARS Seagliders SG550 and SG602. 3. Collect CTD profiles and discrete water samples for calibration of glider sensors following deployment and prior to recovery. |
| Chief scientist | Matthew R Palmer (National Oceanography Centre, Liverpool) |
| Project | An Alternative Framework to Assess Marine Ecosystem Functioning in Shelf Seas (AlterEco) |
| Cruise report |  (0.35 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Subsurface temperature and salinity measurements | Quantity: number of profiles = 1 Description: CTD001 - Water samples collected for salinity, oxygen, nutrients on deck. Fixing of nutrients done whilst stationary due to continued swell. |
| Chemical oceanography | |
| Oxygen | Quantity: number of profiles = 1 Description: CTD001 - Water samples collected for salinity, oxygen, nutrients on deck. Fixing of nutrients done whilst stationary due to continued swell. |
| Nitrate | Quantity: number of profiles = 1 Description: CTD002 - Water samples collected for nutrients only. |
| Nitrate | Quantity: number of profiles = 1 Description: CTD001 - Water samples collected for salinity, oxygen, nutrients on deck. Fixing of nutrients done whilst stationary due to continued swell. |
| Moorings, landers, buoys | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Other physical oceanographic measurements | 55° 21' 59" N 0° 28' 59" W — Slocum Glider deployed (until 27/11/2018) with CTD, Wetlabs, Optode , ADCP, microrider. |
| Other physical oceanographic measurements | 55° 21' 59" N 0° 51' 59" W — UEA Seaglider SG602 recovered |
| Other physical oceanographic measurements | 55° 21' 59" N 0° 51' 59" W — UEA Seaglider SG550 recovered |
