FRV Scotia 0122S
Cruise plan
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FRV Scotia (748S) |
| Cruise identifier | 0122S |
| Cruise period | 2022-01-05 — 2022-01-20 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | Objectives
1. To undertake water, sediment and biological sampling for the Clean Seas Environmental Monitoring Programme. 2. To collect water samples for nutrient studies as part of the Scottish Coastal Eutrophication Assessment Survey. 3. Monitor and record all litter brought aboard in all trawls. Sample water column for micro-plastic litter. 4. Recover a mooring near the Montrose basin for Ewan Edwards. |
| Chief scientist | Gillian Packer (Marine Scotland Aberdeen Marine Laboratory), Guillaume Hermann (Marine Scotland Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
| Cruise programme |  (0.32 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) |
| Specific | Moray Firth, West Shetland, Upper Minch, Sea of Hebrides, Forties, Fladen, West of Orkney, Outer Forth and East Coast. CSEMP fixed sites: North Minch (NMMP85), Inner Moray Firth (NMMP95), Montrose Bank (NMMP165) |
