RV Lough Foyle 2291H_1
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Lough Foyle (74LG) |
| Cruise identifier | 2291H_1 |
| Cruise period | 1991-01-16 — 1991-01-25 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Oban, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Oban, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | To deploy instruments on moorings and carry out physical, chemical and biological sampling. Loch Linnhe Project - Ref H22PT1 |
| Chief scientist | Mike R Heath (Scottish Office Agriculture and Fisheries Department Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
| Project | Loch Linnhe Project |
| Cruise report |  (0.09 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland |
| Specific | Loch Linnhe |
| Track charts |  |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Water bottle stations | Description: Multi parameter aries tows |
| CTD stations | |
| Transparency (eg transmissometer) | |
| Optics (eg underwater light levels) | |
| Other physical oceanographic measurements | Description: multi parameter aries tows |
| Chemical oceanography | |
| Oxygen | |
| Phosphate | |
| Total - P | |
| Nitrate | |
| Total - N | |
| Ammonia | |
| Silicate | |
| Other chemical oceanographic measurements | |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Primary productivity | |
| Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence) | |
| Particulate organic matter (inc POC, PON) | |
| Phytoplankton | |
| Zooplankton | |
| Acoustic reflection on marine organisms. | |
| Other biological/fisheries measurement | |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Core - soft bottom | |
| Multi-beam echosounding | |
| Moorings, landers, buoys | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Subsurface temperature measurements | 56° 32' 59" N 5° 30' 0" W — 2 60m |
| Transparency (eg transmissometer) | 56° 32' 59" N 5° 30' 0" W — 5 transmissometers |
| Optics (eg underwater light levels) | 56° 32' 59" N 5° 30' 0" W — 5 fluorimeters |
| Current meters | 56° 32' 59" N 5° 30' 0" W — Loch Linnhe 9 cm |
| Sea level (inc. bot. press., inverted echosounder) | 56° 32' 59" N 5° 30' 0" W — 3 wlr |
| Chemical oceanography | |
| Other chemical oceanographic measurements | 56° 32' 59" N 5° 30' 0" W — 5 nutrient analysers & NGT 16.1.91-22.2.91 |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Sediment traps | 56° 32' 59" N 5° 30' 0" W — 2 auto sed traps |
