RV Pelagia PE474 (64PE474, GApr16, MetalGate)
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Pelagia (64PE) |
| Cruise identifier | PE474 (64PE474, GApr16, MetalGate) |
| Cruise period | 2021-07-18 — 2021-08-16 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Reykjavík, Iceland |
| Port of return | Reykjavík, Iceland |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | Trace metals and the Arctic-Atlantic gateway in a changing world, local processes and global connections (MetalGate)
Objectives 1. Constrain the sources and sinks of trace metals to the GINS and North Atlantic 2. Determine the effects of changing Fe concentrations and increasing temperatures on natural phytoplankton and their nutrient stoichiometry in bio-assays 3. Identify and quantify the effects of internal transformations on the trace metal and nutrient distributions in both the water column and the Benthic Boundary Layer (BBL) |
| Chief scientist | Rob Middag (Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research) |
| Project | GEOTRACES -Trace elements and their isotopes in the water column |
| Cruise report |  (1.58 MB) |
| NPRC | (0.32 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Greenland Sea Norwegian Sea North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) Irminger Sea |
| Specific | Iceland basin, Irminger Sea, Greenland Sea |