Senckenberg DOG20
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | Senckenberg (06MP) |
| Cruise identifier | DOG20 |
| Cruise period | 2020-08-05 — 2020-08-14 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Wilhelmshaven, Germany |
| Port of return | Wilhelmshaven, Germany |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | The interannual variability of the epibenthic fauna of the Dogger Bank is a long-term project of the Senckenberg Research Institute since 1991. This project aims at gathering basic data, which is used for understanding presumed environmental changes. Therefore the study refers to 37 stations that are, whenever possible, sampled on a yearly basis in the same season with the same gear. The fauna is identified and recorded quantitatively from each sample in order to allow studies on relative abundance. Additionally, temperature parameters are recorded to correlate with faunal composition and species abundances.
The present cruise forms the 27th of the series and gets the suffix DOG20. All former cruises were labelled after the alphabet with one letter starting with DOG-A in 1992. The first cruise in 1991 was called DOG without any suffix. The present was conducted by the Department for Marine Zoology at the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt am Main. |
| Chief scientist | Moritz Sonnewald (Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, Frankfurt, Germany) |
| Cruise report |  (0.39 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Specific | Dogger Bank |
