RV Corystes COR4/92
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Corystes (74RY) |
| Cruise identifier | COR4/92 |
| Cruise period | 1992-03-24 — 1992-04-06 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To provide baseline information on the types of benthos and sediment taken from a treatment for impact and recolonisation studies following the extraction of 50,000 tonnes of aggregate by suction trailer dredge. To provide baseline information on the types of benthos and sediment taken from a reference site. Secondly, to provide baseline data from an experimental disposal site.
2. To collect samples of demersal fish in support of the National Monitoring Plan (NMP) and Environmental Quality Objective programmes. 3. To collect sediment samples for analytical chemistry at stations established by the North Sea Task Force and National Monitoring programmes. 4. To collect sediment samples for enumeration of resting cysts of Alexandrium tamerense in support of a MAFF funded research programme on Paralytical Shellfish Poison. Additional Aims: 5. To evaluate an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP). |
| Chief scientist | Michael Joseph Waldock (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Burnham Laboratory) |
| Project | NSTF |
| Cruise report |  (0.11 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Specific | North Sea, English East Coast, Norfolk to Berwick |
| Track charts |  |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of stations = 7 Description: samples of water taken at all 7 NTSF stations. |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Demersal fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 9 |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Dredge | Quantity: number of deployments = 7 Description: rock dredge tows. |
| Grab | Quantity: number of samples = 63 Description: day grab samples. |
| Long/short range side scan sonar | Description: side scan surveys. |
