RV Investigator IN2017_V05 (GIc01)
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Investigator (096U) |
| Cruise identifier | IN2017_V05 (GIc01) |
| Cruise period | 2017-10-11 — 2017-11-10 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Broome, Australia |
| Port of return | Fremantle, Australia |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | The objectives of the voyage were to sample at 100 sites, across gradients of historical and recent fishing effort, using a demersal fish trawl and an epibenthic sled in order to contrast the diversity, abundance, biomass and size/age composition of the demersal fish community and epibenthic, habitat forming invertebrates. Other sampling of the biophysical nature of the sediment and the water column were also to be taken at a subset of these sites in order to adequately characterise environmental parameters of the study region. |
| Chief scientist | John K Keesing (CSIRO Centre for Environment and Life Sciences) |
| Project | GEOTRACES -Trace elements and their isotopes in the water column |
| Cruise report |  (1.65 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Indian Ocean |
| Specific | Northwest Australian continental shelf |
| Data held at BODC | |
| Discrete samples | |
| 12 Atmospheric air sampling pump |
