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FRV Scotia 1120S
Cruise plan
Cruise Info. | |
Ship name (ship code) | FRV Scotia (748S) |
Cruise identifier | 1120S |
Cruise period | 2020-07-30 — 2020-08-19 |
Status | Completed |
Port of departure | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
Port of return | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
Purpose | Research |
Objectives | Objectives
1. To complete an internationally coordinated demersal trawling survey in the North Sea in ICES area IV. 2. To obtain temperature and salinity data from the water column at each trawling station using a SEABIRD 19+CTD. 3. To collect additional biological data in connection with the EU Data Collection Framework (DCF). 4. To collect and quantify all marine litter encountered on the survey for MSFD. 5. To identify and quantify the presence of non-indigenous species observed. 6. To collect surface water phytoplankton samples at each trawl station. 7. To collect low nutrient sea water from 43F0 for the MSS chemistry department. 8. To retrieve acoustic mooring 80nm east of Montrose. |
Chief scientist | Ruadhan Gillespie-Mules (Marine Scotland Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
Cruise programme | (0.74 MB) |
Ocean/sea areas | |
General | North Sea |
Specific | North sea (ICES Area IV) |