Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |
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Ship name (ship code) | FRV Scotia (747S) |
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Cruise identifier | 2/69 |
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Cruise period | 1969-03-09 — 1969-03-27 |
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Status | Completed |
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Port of departure | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
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Port of return | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
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Objectives | Released 100 bottom current markers off the mouth of the River Ythan.
Trawled in the Buchan Deeps and worked a line of stations to the east or Orkney. There was an intention fo work a line of stations due east but abandoned due to adverse weather conditions. |
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Chief scientist | Richard B Burns (Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
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Cruise report | (0.23 MB) |
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Ocean/sea areas | |
General | North Sea |
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Measurements | |
Physical oceanography | |
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Bathythermograph | Quantity: number of profiles = 26 Description: mechanical |
Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of stations = 25 Description: 8 T surface |
Surface drifters/drifting buoys | Description: bottom |
Chemical oceanography | |
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Phosphate | Quantity: 25 |
Nitrate | Quantity: 25 |
Nitrite | |
Silicate | Quantity: 25 |
Isotopes | Description: C |
Biology and fisheries | |
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Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence) | Quantity: 25 |
Phytoplankton | Quantity: 33 |