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Free search	Use the 'free search' to find entries containing an occurrence of a word or simple phrase. Currently, this is restricted to following fields of the Cruise Summary Report database: ship name, cruise objectives, project, chief scientist, port of departure and port of return.   Character strings containing A-Z and 0-9 are supported. The search is not case sensitive.
Ship name	Refine your search for cruises conducted on a particular ship. Start typing text into the text box to autocomplete and refine your ship search. The default is all ships.
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Status	{v15} Refine your search by the status of the cruise. You may select scheduled cruises planned for the future, current ongoing cruises, cancelled and completed cruises. The default is set to match any cruise irrespective of its status.
Ocean/sea area	Worldwide Atlantic Ocean North Atlantic Ocean North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) Irish Sea and St. George's Channel Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland North Sea Skagerrak Bristol Channel English Channel Celtic Sea Bay of Biscay Gulf of Guinea North West Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) Gulf of St. Lawrence Bay of Fundy Gulf of Mexico Caribbean Sea South Atlantic Ocean South East Atlantic Ocean (limit 20W) South West Atlantic Ocean (limit 20W) Rio de La Plata Mediterranean Sea Mediterranean Sea - Western basin Strait of Gibraltar (Mediterranean Sea) Alboran Sea (Mediterranean Sea) Balearic (Iberian) Sea (Mediterranean Sea) Ligurian Sea (Mediterranean Sea) Tyrrhenian Sea (Mediterranean Sea) Mediterranean Sea - Eastern basin Ionian Sea (Mediterranean Sea) Adriatic Sea (Mediterranean Sea) Aegean Sea (The Archipelago) (Mediterranean Sea) Strait of Sicily Sea of Marmara Black Sea Sea of Azov Baltic Sea Gulf of Bothnia (Baltic Sea) Gulf of Finland (Baltic Sea) Gulf of Riga (Baltic Sea) Kattegat, Sound and Belts Arctic Ocean East Siberian Sea Hudson Strait Hudson Bay The Northwestern Passages The Northwestern Passages - Baffin Bay Arctic Ocean - Lincoln Sea Beaufort Sea Chukchi Sea Laptev Sea (or Nordenskjold Sea) Kara Sea Barents Sea White Sea Greenland Sea Norwegian Sea Iceland Sea Davis Strait Labrador Sea (Davis Strait) Southern Ocean Pacific Ocean North Pacific Ocean North East Pacific Ocean (limit 180W) Gulf of California Coastal Waters of SE Alaska and British Columbia Gulf of Alaska North West Pacific Ocean (limit 180W) Sea of Okhotsk Japan Sea Seto Naikai or Inland Sea Yellow Sea (Hwang Hai) Eastern China Sea (Tung Hai) Bering Sea Philippine Sea South Pacific Ocean South East Pacific Ocean (limit 140W) South West Pacific Ocean (limit 140W) Solomon Sea Bismarck Sea Coral Sea Tasman Sea South China Sea (Nan Hai) Gulf of Thailand (Siam) Malacca and Singapore Straits Malacca Strait Singapore Strait East Indian Archipelago (Indonesia) Bali Sea (East Indian Archipelago) Ceram Sea (East Indian Archipelago) Flores Sea (East Indian Archipelago) Savu Sea (East Indian Archipelago) Banda Sea (East Indian Archipelago) Halmahera Sea (East Indian Archipelago) Molukka Sea (East Indian Archipelago) Celebes Sea (East Indian Archipelago) Sulu Sea (East Indian Archipelago) Gulf of Tomini (East Indian Archipelago) Arafura Sea (East Indian Archipelago) Timor Sea (East Indian Archipelago) Gulf of Boni (East Indian Archipelago) Makassar Strait (East Indian Archipelago) Java Sea (East Indian Archipelago) Indian Ocean Mozambique Channel (Indian Ocean) Laccadive Sea Bay of Bengal Andaman or Burma Sea Great Australian Bight Bass Strait (Great Australian Bight) Gulf of Suez Gulf of Aqaba Red Sea Gulf of Aden Gulf of Iran (Persian Gulf) Gulf of Oman Arabian Sea Aral Sea Caspian Sea Eastern Scheldt Fram Strait IJsselmeer Irminger Sea Markermeer Wadden Sea Western Scheldt Unknown Refine your search for cruises in a particular sea area. Select your area(s) of interest. To select more than one sea area use Control+click or Shift+click as appropiate. You may also use Control+click to deselect an area. The default is set to match any cruise irrespective of its sea area.   The names and limits of oceans and seas presented are a subset taken from the 3rd Edition of International Hydrographic Bureau (IHB) Special Publication No.23 published in 1953. The list is generated dynamically depending on data in the database.
Discipline	All Physical oceanography Chemical oceanography Contaminants Biology and fisheries Meteorology Geology and geophysics Refine your search for cruises collecting data for a particular discipline. Having selected your discipline, the options available in the data type section will be automatically updated. The default is all disciplines.
Data type	Surface measurements underway (T,S) Bathythermograph Water bottle stations CTD stations Subsurface measurements underway (T,S) Thermistor chain Transparency (eg transmissometer) Optics (eg underwater light levels) Geochemical tracers (eg freons) Current meters Current profiler (eg ADCP) Currents measured from ship drift GEK Surface drifters/drifting buoys Neutrally buoyant floats Sea level (inc. bot. press., inverted echosounder) Instrumented wave measurements Other physical oceanographic measurements Oxygen Carbon dioxide Other dissolved gases Phosphate Total - P Nitrate Nitrite Total - N Ammonia Silicate Alkalinity pH Trace elements Radioactivity Isotopes Other chemical oceanographic measurements Suspended matter Trace metals Petroleum residues Chlorinated hydrocarbons Other dissolved substances Bottom deposits Contaminants in organisms Other contaminant measurements Primary productivity Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence) Particulate organic matter (inc POC, PON) Dissolved organic matter (inc DOC) Biochemical measurements (eg lipids, amino acids) Sediment traps Phytoplankton Zooplankton Seston Neuston Nekton Eggs and larvae Pelagic bacteria/micro-organisms Benthic bacteria/micro-organisms Phytobenthos Zoobenthos Birds Mammals and reptiles Pelagic fish Demersal fish Molluscs Crustaceans Acoustic reflection on marine organisms Taggings Gear research Exploratory fishing Other biological/fisheries measurement Upper air observations Incident radiation Occasional standard measurements Routine standard measurements Atmospheric chemistry Other meteorological measurements Dredge Grab Core - rock Core - soft bottom Bottom photography In-situ seafloor measurement/sampling Geophysical measurements made at depth Single-beam echosounding Multi-beam echosounding Long/short range side scan sonar Single channel seismic reflection Multichannel seismic reflection Seismic refraction Gravity measurements Magnetic measurements Other geological/geophysical measurements Refine your search for cruises which collected a particular data type. To select more than one data type use Control+click or Shift+click as appropiate. You may also use Control+click to deselect a data type. The default is all data types.   View all data types and their disciplines  (106 KB).
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Maritime Training and Education Centre, Freder MarinX Consultancy Marine Biological Association of the UK Marine Conservation Research International Marine Institute Marine Institute Galway Marine Pollution Div., Warren Spring Laboratory Marine Research Institute, Reykjavik Marine Scotland Aberdeen Marine Laboratory Marseilles Oceanology Centre Luminy, Oceanography and B Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Civ Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology Max Planck Institute for Meteorology Max Rubner Institute, Federal Research Institute for Nu Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies Natural Re Metocean Services International Ltd. 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Survey, Branch of Pacific Marine Geology Uni. of South Florida (Tampa + St. Petersburg) United Kingdom Hydrographic Office United Kingdom Ocean Research Services United States Geological Survey Center for Coastal and University College Cardiff Geology Department University College Cork School of Biological, Earth and University College London Department of Geography University of Aarhus Bioscience Institute University of Aberdeen Department of Geology and Petrol University of Aberdeen, Oceanlab University of Aberdeen, School of Biological Sciences University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Marine Sci University of Bath, Department of Physics University of Bergen Department of Biology University of Bergen Geophysical Institute University of Bergen, Department of Biological Sciences University of Bergen, Department of Earth Science University of Birmingham Department of Geological Scien University of Birmingham Department of Geology University of Birmingham Department of Geology with Geo University of Birmingham School of Earth Sciences University of Birmingham School of Geography, Earth and University of Bordeaux 1, Environnements et Paléoenviro University of Bremen Institute of Environmental Physics University of Bremen, Center for Marine Environmental S University of Bristol Geology Department University of Bristol School of Earth Sciences University of British Columbia Department of Earth and University of British Columbia, Department of Earth, Oc University of Cambridge Department of Earth Sciences University of Cambridge, Scott Polar Research Institute University of Cape Town, Department of Oceanography University of Cardiff School of Earth and Ocean Science University of Durham Department of Geography University of Durham, Department of Earth Sciences University of Durham, Department of Geological Sciences University of East Anglia School of Environmental Scien University of Edinburgh Department of Geology University of Edinburgh Department of Geology and Geoph University of Edinburgh School of GeoSciences University of Exeter Department of Geography University of Exeter Department of Geology University of Exeter, Centre for Geography and Environm University of Gent Department of Biology University of Ghent Renard Centre of Marine Geology University of Glasgow Department of Geology University of Glasgow Institute of Biodiversity, Animal University of Hamburg Institute of Geophysics University of Hamburg Oceanography Institute University of Hamburg, Department of Chemistry University of Hull Department of Geography University of Keele Department of Geology University of Kiel University of Leeds Department of Earth Sciences University of Leeds School of Earth and Environment University of Leicester Department of Geology University of Lille 1 - Sciences and Technologies, Wime University of Liverpool Department of Earth Sciences University of Liverpool Department of Earth and Ocean S University of Liverpool Department of Earth, Ocean and University of Liverpool Department of Oceanography University of Liverpool Port Erin Marine Laboratory University of Liège Department of Astrophysics Geophysi University of Maine School of Marine Sciences University of Manchester School of Earth Atmospheric an University of Newcastle School of Biology University of Newcastle School of Physics University of Nottingham Centre for Biomolecular Scienc University of Oldenburg Institute for Chemistry and Bio University of Oxford Department of Earth Sciences University of Oxford Department of Zoology University of Plymouth Institute of Marine Studies University of Plymouth School of Marine Science and Eng University of Plymouth, School of Biological and Marine University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanogra University of Sao Paulo University of South Carolina Department of Earth and Oc University of Southampton Department of Oceanography University of Southampton School of Ocean and Earth Sci University of Southern Mississippi, Department of Marin University of St Andrews, School of Biology University of St Andrews, School of Biology, Sea Mammal University of Stellenbosch Department of Earth Sciences University of Stirling Department of Biology University of Strathclyde, Department of Physics University of Sydney Ocean Science Institute University of Tasmania, Australia University of Tasmania, Institute for Marine and Antarc University of Tokyo, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Inst University of Toyama, Graduate School of Science and En University of Tromsø Norwegian College of Fishery Scien University of Tromsø, Department of Arctic and Marine B University of Ulster School of Environmental Sciences University of Utrecht, Department of Earth Sciences - G University of Wales Aberystwyth Department of Geology University of Wales Swansea Department of Geology and O University of Wales Swansea Natural Sciences University of Wales, Bangor School of Ocean Sciences University of Washington Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington School of Oceanography University of York Department of Chemistry University of the Azores, Department of Oceanography an University of the Virgin Islands, Center for Marine and Unknown Villefranche-sur-Mer Oceanological Observatory Western Brittany University Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution - Geology and Geop Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Department of Mari Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Department of Phys Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Department of Bio Xiamen University State Key Laboratory of Marine Enviro Zoological Society of London Institute of Zoology Refine your search for cruises that were coordinated by a particular laboratory. 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