RV Ocean Crest B/1/80
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Ocean Crest (74OC) |
| Cruise identifier | B/1/80 |
| Cruise period | 1980-01-14 — 1980-01-18 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Swansea, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Swansea, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | To cover as much of the Bristol Channel monitoring cruise area as possible with an alternative array of sensing equipment on a charter vessel. It was required to make continuous surface measurements of salinity, temperature and fluorescence using the Fast Continuous Plankton Recorder as well as taking discrete samples for salinity and chlorophyll calibration and for the estimation of turbidity and dissolved nitrate-nitrogen. |
| Chief scientist | Michael B Jordan (Institute of Marine Environmental Research, Plymouth) |
| Cruise report |  (0.04 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Bristol Channel |
| Track charts |  |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Surface measurements underway (T,S) | Quantity: track kilometres = 370.4 |
| Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of stations = 32 Description: S surface only |
| Transparency (eg transmissometer) | Quantity: 80 |
| Contamination | |
| Suspended matter | Quantity: 80 |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence) | Quantity: 68 |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Long/short range side scan sonar | Quantity: number of hauls = 46 |
| Data held at BODC | |
| Discrete samples | |
| 103 General station with STD/bottles/additional instruments | Nitrite concentration parameters in the water column Salinity of the water column Temperature of the water column Concentration of suspended particulate material in the water column Phaeopigment concentrations in the water column Nitrate concentration parameters in the water column Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in water bodies |
