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RRS Challenger CH2/79
Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |
Ship name (ship code) | RRS Challenger (74CH) |
Cruise identifier | CH2/79 |
Cruise period | 1979-01-29 — 1979-02-18 |
Status | Completed |
Port of departure | Barry, United Kingdom |
Port of return | Barry, United Kingdom |
Purpose | Research |
Objectives | 1. Physiological studies of mid-water and benthic animals. Specific problems included vision in fish and cephalopods, locomotion in cephalopods, comparative morphology and sensory systems of crustacea, swimbladder function in fish and wax ester biosynthesis in teleosts.
2. To extend the meiobenthic coring work carried out in the Rockall Trough and the Porcupine Abyssal plains. Also to collect meiobenthic cores from isolated seamounts and in shallow water around Madeira. |
Chief scientist | John D M Gordon (Scottish Marine Biological Association) |
Cruise report | (0.63 MB) |
Ocean/sea areas | |
General | North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) |
Track charts | |
Measurements | |
Biology and fisheries | |
Zooplankton | Quantity: number of hauls = 37 |
Zoobenthos | Quantity: number of hauls = 2 Description: population studies |
Pelagic fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 37 Description: physiology,behaviour studies |