FRV Scotia 4/69
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FRV Scotia (747S) |
| Cruise identifier | 4/69 |
| Cruise period | 1969-04-19 — 1969-05-13 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Leith, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Objectives | Early departure in fair weather to the outermost buoy of the Ythan estuary. Worked on stations near Norway and the Shetland Isles. Surveyed the area east of Orkney and the Moray Firth.
All but one of the programmed stations had been completed, together with 6 additional environmental and 15 trawl stations. |
| Chief scientist | James A Adams (Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.20 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Bathythermograph | Quantity: number of profiles = 64 Description: mechanical |
| Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of stations = 64 Description: top & bottom |
| Chemical oceanography | |
| Isotopes | Description: C |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence) | Quantity: 64 Description: chlorophyll |
| Phytoplankton | Quantity: 64 |
