Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |
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Ship name | Seeker |
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Cruise period | 1993-05-18 — 1993-05-24 |
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Status | Completed |
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Port of departure | Boston, United Kingdom |
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Port of return | Boston, United Kingdom |
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Purpose | Research |
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Objectives | To identify and quantify the fate of river-borne nutrients entering the Wash by measuring a wide variety of parameters at five pre-determined sites. |
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Chief scientist | David Brian Sivyer (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
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Cruise report | (0.05 MB) |
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Ocean/sea areas | |
General | North Sea |
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Specific | Wash |
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Measurements | |
Physical oceanography | |
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Surface measurements underway (T,S) | |
Chemical oceanography | |
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Oxygen | |
Phosphate | Description: Samples collected for nutrient flux determination |
Nitrate | Description: Samples collected for nutrient flux determination |
Nitrite | Description: Samples collected for nutrient flux determination |
Silicate | Description: Samples collected for nutrient flux determination |
Contamination | |
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Suspended matter | |
Biology and fisheries | |
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Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence) | |