FRV Clupea 0478C
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FRV Clupea (74CU) |
| Cruise identifier | 0478C |
| Cruise period | 1978-05-08 — 1978-05-18 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Buckie, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | Deployment of Queen cages, sedimentation traps and a thermistor chain.
Hydrochemical, micro-biological and hydro-carbon surveys. |
| Chief scientist | J H Anthony Martin (Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.06 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Specific | Sullom Voe, Moray Firth. |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of stations = 29 |
| Transparency (eg transmissometer) | |
| Chemical oceanography | |
| Oxygen | Quantity: number of stations = 24 |
| Total - N | Quantity: number of stations = 18 |
| Ammonia | Quantity: number of stations = 24 |
| Silicate | Quantity: number of stations = 24 |
| Contamination | |
| Suspended matter | |
| Petroleum residues | |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence) | Quantity: number of stations = 24 Description: distribution studies |
| Particulate organic matter (inc POC, PON) | Quantity: number of samples = 36 |
