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RV Corystes COR4/97
Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |
Ship name (ship code) | RV Corystes (74RY) |
Cruise identifier | COR4/97 |
Cruise period | 1997-04-02 — 1997-04-08 |
Status | Completed |
Port of departure | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
Port of return | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
Purpose | Research |
Objectives | 1. To recover the Minipod and Guard Buoy from Harwich.
2. To deploy Tetrapod and Quadrapod near North Ridge of Race Bank to measure near bed currents and suspended load concentrations (AE0711A0). 3. To deploy Minipods at North Docking Shoal Buoy, "Nut and Spanner", Burnham Flats buoy, Burnham Flats and Wainfleet Roads to monitor suspended sediment (AE0711A0). 4. To undertake sidescan lines and TV dips near Minipod/Tetrapod positions (AE0711A0). 5. To undertake an ADCP survey of Area 107 (North Docking Shoal), Race Bank and into the Wash to create an empirical model of the outer Wash (AE0711A0). 6. To deploy and recover a series of Argos Buoys in the plume of the dredgers to help understand plume dynamics and to validate the empirical model (AE0711A0). To take water samples in the plume of the dredger to help calibrate Minipod sensors. (AE0711A0). |
Chief scientist | Jonathon Mark Rees (Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science Lowestoft Laboratory) |
Cruise report | (0.10 MB) |
Ocean/sea areas | |
General | North Sea |
Specific | Harwich and Wash |
Measurements | |
Physical oceanography | |
Current profiler (eg ADCP) | Quantity: number of surveys = 8 Description: ADCP surveys |