FRV Scotia 9/78
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FRV Scotia (749S) |
| Cruise identifier | 9/78 |
| Cruise period | 1978-08-22 — 1978-09-13 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | Measurements of temperature, salinity, oxygen, nutrients, chlorophyll and plankton in the Northwestern North Sea, Fair Isle Channel, Faroe-Shetland Channel, Rockall Trough and seas north and west of Scotland. Current meter deployments. |
| Chief scientist | Harry D Dooley (Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) |
| Specific | Northwestern North Sea, Fair Isle Channel, Faroe-Shetland Channel, Rockall Trough, north and west of Scotland |
| Track charts |  |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Surface measurements underway (T,S) | Quantity: activity duration in days = 22 |
| Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of stations = 172 |
| CTD stations | Quantity: number of stations = 109 |
| Transparency (eg transmissometer) | |
| Current meters | Quantity: number of deployments = 4 Description: 3x14 day records and 1x90 day record. |
| Chemical oceanography | |
| Oxygen | Quantity: number of stations = 41 |
| Phosphate | Quantity: number of stations = 24 |
| Nitrate | Quantity: number of stations = 107 |
| Silicate | Quantity: number of stations = 10 |
| Other chemical oceanographic measurements | Quantity: number of stations = 41 Description: other measurements |
| Contamination | |
| Trace metals | |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Primary productivity | |
| Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence) | Quantity: number of stations = 116 |
| Particulate organic matter (inc POC, PON) | |
| Phytoplankton | Quantity: number of stations = 55 |
| Zooplankton | Quantity: number of stations = 13 Description: distribution |
