Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
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| Ship name (ship code) | MFV Fidelity (748J) |
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| Cruise identifier | AE8 |
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| Cruise period | 2019-04-24 — 2019-04-25 |
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| Status | Completed |
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| Port of departure | Amble, United Kingdom |
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| Port of return | Amble, United Kingdom |
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| Purpose | Research |
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| Objectives | Objectives
1. Recover Nutrient enabled sea glider 602 (Scapa).
2. Collect CTD profiles and discrete water samples for calibration of glider sensors. |
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| Chief scientist | Matthew R Palmer (National Oceanography Centre, Liverpool) |
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| Project | An Alternative Framework to Assess Marine Ecosystem Functioning in Shelf Seas (AlterEco) |
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| Cruise report | (0.17 MB) |
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| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
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| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
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| Subsurface temperature and salinity measurements | Quantity: number of profiles = 1 Description: CTD - water samples taken for both Salinity, nutrients and Oxygen measurements |
| Chemical oceanography | |
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| Oxygen | Quantity: number of profiles = 1 Description: CTD - water samples taken for both Salinity, nutrients and Oxygen measurements |
| Moorings, landers, buoys | |
| Physical oceanography | |
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| Other physical oceanographic measurements | 56° 21' 0" N 2° 0' 0" E — Recovered Seaglider Scapa sg620 |