FRV Scotia 1220S
Cruise plan
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FRV Scotia (748S) |
| Cruise identifier | 1220S |
| Cruise period | 2020-08-22 — 2020-09-07 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | Objectives
At Pobie Bank Reef 1. Acquire full coverage side scan sonar from the prioritised survey boxes (and ~50% multi-beam coverage). 2. Acquire video and still imagery from sampling stations inside the acoustic survey boxes. 3. Acquire video and still imagery from sampling stations outside acoustic survey boxes. 4. Ground truth sites inside area of newly acquired acoustic data using drop camera (time permitting). 5. Acquire full coverage multi-beam from the prioritised survey boxes (time permitting). Contingency 6. Acquire grab samples from stations where seabed is deemed suitable. 7. Test Git hub camera system. 8. acquire grab samples from the Unst Basin for PSA and relate this to the Roxann hardness and roughness index. 9. SNH contingency sampling. |
| Chief scientist | David A Stirling (Marine Scotland Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
| Cruise programme |  (0.34 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Specific | Pobie Bank Reef (PBR) Special Area of Conservation (SAC) |
