RV Calanus CALANUS0189
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Calanus (745R) |
| Cruise identifier | CALANUS0189 |
| Cruise period | 1989-06-05 — 1989-06-18 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Dunstaffnage, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Dunstaffnage, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To investigate the fine scale distribution of hydrographic parameters, phytoplankton and zooplankton along a transect through Lough Linnhe and the Firth of Lorne.
2. To investgate the metabolic rates of phytoplankton size classes, zooplakton and micronekton at contrasting sites along the transect line. |
| Chief scientist | Mike R Heath (Scottish Office Agriculture and Fisheries Department Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.12 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland |
| Track charts |  |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of stations = 7 |
| Subsurface temperature and salinity measurements | |
| Transparency (eg transmissometer) | |
| Optics (eg underwater light levels) | |
| Surface drifters/drifting buoys | Quantity: number of deployments = 2 Description: Decca and ARGOS bUOYS |
| Chemical oceanography | |
| Phosphate | Quantity: 7 |
| Nitrate | Quantity: 7 |
| Ammonia | Quantity: 7 Description: NH4 |
| Silicate | Quantity: 6 |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Primary productivity | |
| Particulate organic matter (inc POC, PON) | Description: PON |
| Sediment traps | |
| Phytoplankton | |
| Zooplankton | Quantity: track kilometres = 120 Description: pump sampling |
| Eggs and larvae |
