Seeker 2/90
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name | Seeker |
| Cruise identifier | 2/90 |
| Cruise period | 1990-10-29 — 1990-11-03 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Boston, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Boston, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | To collect sediment and water samples as part of the JONUS programme to identify and quantify the fate of river bourne nutrients entering the Wash estuaries |
| Chief scientist | Stephen James Malcolm (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.88 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Specific | Wash Estuary |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Subsurface temperature and salinity measurements | Quantity: number of samples = 1 Description: Water samples were taken from the Wisbech Channel. |
| Subsurface temperature and salinity measurements | Quantity: number of samples = 3 Description: At Inner Westmark Knock the ATVs were deployed onto the sandbanks and samples for denitrification assay, sediment flux measurement and interstitial water were collected. |
| Subsurface temperature and salinity measurements | Quantity: number of samples = 1 Description: The abandoned ATV was recovered and sediment samples were collected. |
| Subsurface temperature and salinity measurements | Quantity: number of samples = 1 Description: Interstitial water samples were collected at WSP6, in doing so one ATV had to be abandoned. |
| Subsurface temperature and salinity measurements | Quantity: number of samples = 3 Description: At Freiston Low all terrain vehicles were deployed to collect samples for denitrification assay, sediment flux measurement and interstitial water. |
| Subsurface temperature and salinity measurements | Quantity: number of samples = 1 Description: Water samples were collected in the Witham. |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Sediment traps | Quantity: number of samples = 3 Description: At Inner Westmark Knock the ATVs were deployed onto the sandbanks and samples for denitrification assay, sediment flux measurement and interstitial water were collected. |
| Sediment traps | Quantity: number of samples = 1 Description: The abandoned ATV was recovered and sediment samples were collected. |
| Sediment traps | Quantity: number of samples = 3 Description: At Freiston Low all terrain vehicles were deployed to collect samples for denitrification assay, sediment flux measurement and interstitial water. |
