FRV Scotia 0522S
Cruise plan
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FRV Scotia (748S) |
| Cruise identifier | 0522S |
| Cruise period | 2022-04-29 — 2022-05-11 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | Objectives
1. Test the SBE911 and CTD carousel (main CTD crane) and take water samples in a position within or adjacent to the Goldeneye oil field. 2. Perform hydrographic sampling along the JONSIS long term monitoring section in the northern North Sea. 3. Recover and re-deploy three ADCPs (NWSG, NWSD and NWSE: 2 RDI Longrangers and 1 Nortek Signature 100, respectively, with SBE37 T and C sensors) on single string moorings at positions on Fair Isle – Munken (FIM) section. 4. Perform hydrographic sampling along the long term monitoring Faroe-Shetland Channel Nolso – Flugga (NOL) section. 5. Perform hydrographic sampling along the long term monitoring Faroe-Shetland Channel Fair Isle – Munken (FIM) section. 6. Recover an ADCP (AWAC) in steel frame in Loch Erisort. 7. Turn around one ADCP (Sig250) in a trawl resistant AL-200 frame in the Little Minch. 8. Turn around one ADCP (Sig250) in a trawl resistant AL-200 frame in Linne Crowlin. 9. Carry out a line off CTD stations in Loch Ewe between the mouth of the loch and the metocean buoy position. 10. Deploy a subsurface mooring (anchor, ground chain and line) with a surface marker in Loch Ewe. 11. If time allows, carry out a grid of CTD stations in Loch Ewe. 12. Deploy an ADCP (AWAC) in steel frame in the Summer Isles. 13. If time allows, carry out a VMADCP transect in the Loch Broom area. 14. Run the thermosalinograph throughout the survey. 15. Run the VMADCP on all the standard sections. 16. Take water samples for long term storage on Fair Isle – Munken or Nolso – Flugga section stations. 17. Additional sampling: 1) Take water samples for filtration for oil bacteria at selected stations in the FSC; 2) Take zooplankton net samples in the Loch Ewe CTD transect; 3) Deploy the weeHoloCam at all Loch Ewe CTD transect stations and a deep station in the FSC; 4) Take water sample for microplastics bacteria at one FSC station. 18. If weather/time permits conduct CTD sections on the west coast, from the coastline up to the edge of the continental shelf ("Shelf" sections). 19. If weather/time permits repeat the JONSIS line at the end of the survey and extend to 001° 30' east. 20. If weather/time permits perform fine scale VMADCP/CTD survey work on the JONSIS line (around 59° 17' N, 001° 15' W). 21. If weather/time permits, perform VMADCP/CTD survey work in the Moray Firth and/or Aberdeen Bay. 22. If weather/time permits, perform CTD deployments along the AlterECO line (offshore from Aberdeen). |
| Chief scientist | Alejandro Gallego (Marine Scotland Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
| Cruise programme |  (0.40 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) |
| Specific | Goldeneye oil field, Faroe-Shetland Channel, Loch Erisort, Little Minch, Linne Crowlin, Loch Ewe, Summer Isles, Loch Broom, Moray Firth |
