RRS Challenger CH115B

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Ship name (ship code)

RRS Challenger (74CH)

Cruise identifier

CH115B

Cruise period

1994-10-18 — 1994-10-31

Status

Completed

Port of departure

Grimsby, United Kingdom

Port of return

Grimsby, United Kingdom

Purpose

Research

Objectives

1. To quantify the hydrodynamical transports and the processes affecting transformations, interactions and fates of particles, biogeochemically important elements and representative contaminants from land sources to the coastal zone.
2. To provide the first integrated environmental data base for a UK coastal region covering seasonal cycles and interannual variability and incorporating measurements of the fluxes of materials and rates of biological productivity.
3. To generate new quantitative understanding of estuarine and coastal zone processes controlling the fluxes and reactivities of both natural and anthropogenic materials.
4. To provide integratable models of these processes as building blocks for comprehensive coastal zone system models which will realistically predict the effects of future environmental change.

Chief scientist

Robin M H Howland (Plymouth Marine Laboratory)

Project

LOIS - RACS

Coordinating body

NERC, Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML)

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Ocean/sea areas

General

North Sea

Specific

UK coastal waters from the Wash to Berwick upon Tweed

Track charts

Measurements

Physical oceanography

Surface measurements underway (T,S)

Quantity: track kilometres = 5000
Description: underway measurements of T,S, transmittance, incident PAR

CTD stations

Quantity: number of profiles = 20
Description: Neil Brown MK IIIB, up/downwelling PAR radiance meters, fluor.,O2

Subsurface temperature and salinity measurements

Quantity: number of deployments = 5
Description: UOR towed at fixed depth; T, cond.,transm.,SPM,fluor.

Transparency (eg transmissometer)

Quantity: number of profiles = 20
Description: Neil Brown MK IIIB, up/downwelling PAR radiance meters, fluor.,O2

Optics (eg underwater light levels)

Quantity: number of deployments = 5
Description: UOR towed at fixed depth; T, cond.,transm.,SPM,fluor.

Current profiler (eg ADCP)

Quantity: track kilometres = 5000
Description: underway shipborne ADCP

Chemical oceanography

Oxygen

Quantity: number of profiles = 20
Description: Neil Brown MK IIIB, up/downwelling PAR radiance meters, fluor.,O2

Phosphate

Quantity: track kilometres = 5000
Description: underway measurements

Nitrate

Quantity: track kilometres = 5000
Description: underway measurements

Nitrite

Quantity: track kilometres = 5000
Description: underway measurements

Ammonia

Quantity: track kilometres = 5000
Description: underway measurement

Silicate

Quantity: track kilometres = 5000
Description: underway measurements

Trace elements

Quantity: number of samples = 100
Description: Aluminium determinations from non-toxic supply

Radioactivity

Description: radio isotopes in sediments

Isotopes

Description: radio isotopes in sediments

Other chemical oceanographic measurements

Description: sulphate reduction in sediments

Contamination

Suspended matter

Quantity: number of samples = 50
Description: gravimetric, chlorophyll, lugol's iodine and formalin

Suspended matter

Quantity: number of deployments = 5
Description: UOR towed at fixed depth; T, cond.,transm.,SPM,fluor.

Biology and fisheries

Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence)

Quantity: number of samples = 50
Description: gravimetric, chlorophyll, lugol's iodine and formalin

Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence)

Quantity: number of profiles = 20
Description: Neil Brown MK IIIB, up/downwelling PAR radiance meters, fluor.,O2

Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence)

Quantity: number of deployments = 5
Description: UOR towed at fixed depth; T, cond.,transm.,SPM,fluor.

Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence)

Quantity: track kilometres = 5000
Description: underway measurements of fluorescence

Pelagic bacteria/micro-organisms

Description: nitrification/denitrification studies on sediment cores

Benthic bacteria/micro-organisms

Description: nitrification/denitrification studies on sediment cores

Meteorology

Incident radiation

Quantity: track kilometres = 5000
Description: underway measurements of solar radiation

Geology and geophysics

Core - soft bottom

Quantity: number of deployments = 50
Description: box coring

Moorings, landers, buoys

Physical oceanography

Transparency (eg transmissometer)

53° 5' 35" N 0° 30' 0" E — Mooring laid in Wash approaches for 6 week duration

Other physical oceanographic measurements

53° 5' 35" N 0° 30' 0" E — Mooring laid in Wash approaches for 6 week duration

Contamination

Suspended matter

53° 5' 35" N 0° 30' 0" E — Mooring laid in Wash approaches for 6 week duration

Biology and fisheries

Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence)

53° 5' 35" N 0° 30' 0" E — Mooring laid in Wash approaches for 6 week duration

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Series/Profiles

20 CTD/STD cast

Transmittance and attenuance of the water column
Salinity of the water column
Temperature of the water column
Vertical spatial coordinates
Concentration of suspended particulate material in the water column
Visible waveband radiance and irradiance measurements in the water column
Density of the water column
Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in water bodies

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BODC id	Date/Time	Location
835310	1994-10-21 10:31	53° 35' 33" N 0° 53' 10" E
835371	1994-10-24 10:01	55° 8' 58" N 1° 14' 16" W
835383	1994-10-24 13:25	55° 8' 56" N 1° 0' 2" W
835291	1994-10-19 15:06	53° 7' 56" N 0° 33' 20" E
835334	1994-10-23 19:35	54° 56' 50" N 0° 54' 46" W
835402	1994-10-25 08:26	55° 9' 2" N 1° 4' 49" W
835487	1994-10-29 18:42	53° 34' 32" N 0° 45' 1" E
835309	1994-10-20 08:42	52° 41' 16" N 2° 18' 29" E
835322	1994-10-22 09:53	53° 32' 45" N 0° 6' 15" E
835395	1994-10-24 17:45	55° 12' 22" N 1° 1' 25" W
835463	1994-10-28 09:24	55° 48' 17" N 1° 50' 51" W
835358	1994-10-23 22:55	55° 5' 1" N 1° 2' 59" W
835438	1994-10-27 09:13	55° 9' 0" N 1° 24' 33" W
835475	1994-10-29 17:08	53° 35' 13" N 0° 52' 54" E
835414	1994-10-25 13:54	55° 8' 58" N 1° 10' 23" W
835451	1994-10-27 15:34	55° 8' 53" N 1° 29' 18" W
835426	1994-10-26 09:28	55° 8' 59" N 1° 17' 3" W
835499	1994-10-29 20:56	53° 29' 59" N 0° 39' 59" E
835506	1994-10-29 23:19	53° 23' 26" N 0° 40' 2" E
835346	1994-10-23 21:25	54° 55' 55" N 1° 19' 0" W

1 Meteorological data logger

Visible waveband radiance and irradiance measurements in the atmosphere
Horizontal spatial co-ordinates
Date and time
Solar Radiation

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Visible waveband radiance and irradiance measurements in the atmosphere
Horizontal spatial co-ordinates
Date and time
Solar Radiation

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BODC id	Date/Time	Location	Doc.
952049	1994-10-18 15:00 — 1994-10-31 11:02	52° 40' 56" N 2° 17' 0" W — 56° 0' 20" N 2° 18' 47" E

1 Pumped water sample

Horizontal spatial co-ordinates
Date and time
Phaeopigment concentrations in the water column
Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in water bodies

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Horizontal spatial co-ordinates
Date and time
Phaeopigment concentrations in the water column
Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in water bodies

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BODC id	Date/Time	Location	Doc.
1672592	1994-10-19 20:40 — 1994-10-29 04:24	52° 43' 9" N 2° 16' 7" W — 56° 0' 19" N 2° 12' 4" E

1 Ship's non-toxic supply

Horizontal spatial co-ordinates
Transmittance and attenuance of the water column
Nitrite concentration parameters in the water column
Date and time
Phosphate concentration parameters in the water column
Salinity of the water column
Temperature of the water column
Concentration of suspended particulate material in the water column
Silicate concentration parameters in the water column
Nitrate concentration parameters in the water column
Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in water bodies

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952050	1994-10-18 15:00 — 1994-10-31 11:02	52° 40' 56" N 2° 17' 0" W — 56° 0' 20" N 2° 18' 47" E

1 Single-beam echosounder

Horizontal spatial co-ordinates
Date and time
Bathymetry and Elevation

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Horizontal spatial co-ordinates
Date and time
Bathymetry and Elevation

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BODC id	Date/Time	Location	Doc.
952037	1994-10-18 15:00 — 1994-10-31 11:02	52° 40' 56" N 2° 17' 0" W — 56° 0' 20" N 2° 18' 47" E

Discrete samples

57 Box core

Zoobenthos taxonomic abundance
Other fluxes between the bed and the water column
Redox potential in sediment
Nutrient concentrations in sediment pore waters
Nutrient fluxes between the bed and the water column
Sediment water content, porosity and surface area
Metal fluxes between the bed and the water column
Metadata parameters
Sediment grain size parameters
Metal concentrations in sediment pore waters
Nitrogen concentrations in sediment
Carbon concentrations in sediment

23 CTD frame plus rosette sampler

Transmittance and attenuance of the water column
Salinity of the water column
Temperature of the water column
Concentration of suspended particulate material in the water column
Carbon concentrations in suspended particulate material
Nitrogen concentrations in suspended particulate material
Visible waveband radiance and irradiance measurements in the water column
Density of the water column
Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in water bodies

49 Day grab

73 Sample taken from ship's non-toxic supply

Concentration of suspended particulate material in the water column
Carbon concentrations in suspended particulate material
Nitrogen concentrations in suspended particulate material
Phaeopigment concentrations in the water column
Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in water bodies
Dissolved metal concentrations in the water column

5 Undulating Oceanographic Recorder Tow

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