RV Corella 4/78
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Corella (74CX) |
| Cruise identifier | 4/78 |
| Cruise period | 1978-03-10 — 1978-03-20 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To carry out the first of 4 water quality surveys in the proposed sludge
dumping area northeast of the Tyne. 2. To carry out a coliform survey at selected stations in and around the proposed dumping site. 3. To carry out a water quality survey off the Tees to cover the area of Methyl Methacrylate waste dumping. 4. To collect live fish for FRL. |
| Chief scientist | A R Folkard (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.25 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Track charts |  |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Surface measurements underway (T,S) | |
| Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of samples = 121 Description: S surface only |
| Transparency (eg transmissometer) | Description: continuous measurements |
| Chemical oceanography | |
| Phosphate | Quantity: number of samples = 121 |
| Nitrate | Quantity: number of samples = 121 |
| Nitrite | Quantity: number of samples = 121 |
| Ammonia | Quantity: number of samples = 121 |
| Silicate | Quantity: number of samples = 121 |
| Contamination | |
| Suspended matter | Description: continuous measurements |
| Bottom deposits | Quantity: number of samples = 40 Description: coliforms and faecal coli |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence) | Description: continuous measurements |
| Exploratory fishing | Description: commercial |
