RV Corella 12A/78
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Corella (74CX) |
| Cruise identifier | 12A/78 |
| Cruise period | 1978-09-07 — 1978-09-15 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Grimsby, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To measure the level of trace metals in the water and suspended particulate material in the areas of the Thames Estuary and Spurn Head waste dumping grounds. Measurements of nutrient salts will also be made.
2. To collect surface seabed sediment samples off the east coast for the analysis of trace metals by the Institute of Geological Sciences. |
| Chief scientist | Peter G W Jones (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.21 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of stations = 111 |
| Chemical oceanography | |
| Nitrate | Quantity: number of stations = 111 |
| Nitrite | Quantity: number of stations = 111 |
| Ammonia | Quantity: number of stations = 111 |
| Trace elements | Quantity: number of stations = 111 |
| Contamination | |
| Suspended matter | Quantity: number of stations = 111 |
| Trace metals | Quantity: number of stations = 111 |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Dredge | Quantity: number of deployments = 10 Description: chemical analysis of sediments |
