RV Cirolana CIR7/94
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Cirolana (74CZ) |
| Cruise identifier | CIR7/94 |
| Cruise period | 1994-06-10 — 1994-06-26 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To conduct monitoring studies at stations established under the UK National Monitoring Programme (NMP). This involved both physical measurements, and the collection of samples for chemical analysis and biological effects studies. Chemical measurements in water concentrated on the less routine elements of the NMP; Cr, Hg, PAH, volatile organic compounds, HCB and HCBD.
2. To collect water samples for analysis of HCHs and triazine herbicides (atrazine and simazine) in selected estuarines. 3. To collect water samples for the analysis of HCHs along a transect through the Channel, as part of the continuing monitoring following the loss of MV Perintis in 1989. 4. To collect samples of fine surface sediments from a number of offshore and estuarine locations in Cardigan Bay for chlorobiphenyl analysis, as a component of the marine mammal programme. (Aim 4 was an additional aim not included in the original cruise programme.) |
| Chief scientist | Robin John Law (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Burnham Laboratory) |
| Project | National Monitoring Programme (NMP) |
| Cruise report |  (0.11 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | English Channel North Sea Irish Sea and St. George's Channel |
| Specific | North Sea, English Channel, Irish Sea |
| Track charts |  |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of stations = 94 Description: surface T & S including 55 from Sea-rider |
| CTD stations | Quantity: number of stations = 33 |
| Chemical oceanography | |
| Phosphate | Quantity: number of stations = 94 Description: surface only including 56 from Sea-rider |
| Nitrate | Quantity: number of stations = 94 Description: surface only including 56 from Sea-rider |
| Nitrite | Quantity: number of stations = 94 Description: surface only including 56 from Sea-rider |
| Ammonia | Quantity: number of stations = 94 Description: surface only including 56 from Sea-rider |
| Silicate | Quantity: number of stations = 94 Description: surface only including 56 from Sea-rider |
| Contamination | |
| Other contaminant measurements | Quantity: activity duration in days = 16 Description: pollution survey for hydrocarbons |
