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RV Lough Foyle 4291H
Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |
Ship name (ship code) | RV Lough Foyle (74LG) |
Cruise identifier | 4291H |
Cruise period | 1991-03-21 — 1991-03-28 |
Status | Completed |
Port of departure | Oban, United Kingdom |
Port of return | Oban, United Kingdom |
Purpose | Research |
Objectives | Deploy and service instruments, and carry out physical, chemical and biological sampling in Loch Linnhe. Loch Linnhe Project- Ref H22PT3 |
Chief scientist | Steven J Hay (Scottish Office Agriculture and Fisheries Department Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
Project | Loch Linnhe Project |
Cruise report | (0.14 MB) |
Ocean/sea areas | |
General | Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland |
Specific | Loch Linnhe |
Track charts | |
Measurements | |
Physical oceanography | |
Water bottle stations | |
CTD stations | |
Subsurface temperature and salinity measurements | |
Transparency (eg transmissometer) | |
Optics (eg underwater light levels) | |
Current meters | Description: 9 currents meters |
Other physical oceanographic measurements | Description: multi parameter tows of aries |
Chemical oceanography | |
Oxygen | |
Phosphate | |
Nitrate | |
Total - N | |
Ammonia | |
Other chemical oceanographic measurements | |
Biology and fisheries | |
Primary productivity | |
Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence) | |
Particulate organic matter (inc POC, PON) | |
Biochemical measurements (eg lipids, amino acids) | |
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 — 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 22.2.91-21.3.91 |
Biology and fisheries | |
Sediment traps | 56° 32' 59" N 5° 30' 0" W — 2 auto sed traps |