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Unknown ACE Leg 3
Cruise plan
Cruise Info. | |
Ship name | Unknown |
Cruise identifier | ACE Leg 3 |
Cruise period | 2017-02-25 — 2017-03-19 |
Status | Completed |
Port of departure | Punta Arenas, Chile |
Port of return | Cape Town, South Africa |
Purpose | Research |
Objectives | ACE was the first project carried out by the newly created Swiss Polar Institute (SPI). From December 2016 to March 2017, scientific teams from all over the world took part in a groundbreaking expedition aboard the Russian research vessel Akademik Treshnikov. From biology to climatology to oceanography, the researchers worked in a number of interrelated fields as they sought to expand understanding of the White Continent. |
Project | Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition (ACE) |
Coordinating body | Swiss Polar Institute (SPI) |
Data held at BODC | |
Discrete samples | |
14 CTD frame plus rosette sampler |