FS Meteor M42_2
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FS Meteor (06M3) |
| Cruise identifier | M42_2 |
| Cruise period | 1998-07-21 — 1998-08-22 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Lisbon, Portugal |
| Port of return | Lisbon, Portugal |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | One of a series of cruises within the frame of MAS III project BENGAL (no. MAS3-CT950018) and the German deep-sea project BIGSET, to study the transport mechanisms and fluxes of organic matter in the benthic boundary layer of the Porcupine Abyssal Plain and Biotrans station.
Main tasks: Sediment analysis, geochemistry, biochemistry measurements of sediment-oxygen, in-situ fluxes, BBL-particle flux, BBL-plankton studies. Meteorological station - weather consultation (issuing daily weather forecasts), meteorological observations and measurements, and determination of the net total radiation at sea. |
| Chief scientist | Olaf Pfannkuche (Research Center for Marine Geosciences, Kiel) |
| Project | BENGAL (MAS3-CT950018), BIGSET |
| Coordinating body | BENGAL, SOC, BIGSET, GEOMAR, Kiel |
| Cruise report |  (1.05 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) |
| Specific | Western-European Basin |
| Track charts |  |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| CTD stations | Quantity: number of profiles = 31 Description: CTD casts and water samples |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Sediment traps | Quantity: number of deployments = 2 Description: Sediment traps moored |
| Zooplankton | Quantity: number of hauls = 7 Description: Oblique zooplankton hawls |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Core - soft bottom | Quantity: number of deployments = 34 Description: Multiple corer, sediment samples for analysis of porewater nutrients, trace metals, biochemical parameters, bacterial studies |
| Other geological/geophysical measurements | Quantity: number of deployments = 8 Description: Benthic chamber landers, measurement of sediment-water interface fluxes |
| Moorings, landers, buoys | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| CTD stations | 48° 57' 59" N 16° 27' 59" W — CTD casts and water samples; sediment traps; multiple cores for biochemical and geochemistry bacterial studies |
| CTD stations | 47° 10' 59" N 19° 33' 59" W — CTD casts; sediment traps; multiple cores; sediment-water interface fluxes |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Biochemical measurements (eg lipids, amino acids) | 48° 57' 59" N 16° 27' 59" W — CTD casts and water samples; sediment traps; multiple cores for biochemical and geochemistry bacterial studies |
| Sediment traps | 48° 57' 59" N 16° 27' 59" W — CTD casts and water samples; sediment traps; multiple cores for biochemical and geochemistry bacterial studies |
| Sediment traps | 47° 10' 59" N 19° 33' 59" W — CTD casts; sediment traps; multiple cores; sediment-water interface fluxes |
| Zooplankton | 48° 57' 59" N 16° 27' 59" W — Zooplankton |
| Benthic bacteria/micro-organisms | 48° 57' 59" N 16° 27' 59" W — CTD casts and water samples; sediment traps; multiple cores for biochemical and geochemistry bacterial studies |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Core - soft bottom | 48° 36' 0" N 22° 21' 59" W — Multiple cores |
| Core - soft bottom | 48° 57' 59" N 16° 27' 59" W — CTD casts and water samples; sediment traps; multiple cores for biochemical and geochemistry bacterial studies |
| Core - soft bottom | 48° 36' 0" N 17° 26' 59" W — Multiple cores |
| Core - soft bottom | 47° 10' 59" N 19° 33' 59" W — CTD casts; sediment traps; multiple cores; sediment-water interface fluxes |
| Other geological/geophysical measurements | 47° 10' 59" N 19° 33' 59" W — CTD casts; sediment traps; multiple cores; sediment-water interface fluxes |
| Other geological/geophysical measurements | 48° 57' 59" N 16° 27' 59" W — Sediment-water interface fluxes |
