RV Lough Foyle LF/08/94
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Lough Foyle (74LG) |
| Cruise identifier | LF/08/94 |
| Cruise period | 1994-03-21 — 1994-03-24 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Belfast, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Belfast, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | The primary function of the cruise was to sample the 3 N Ireland UK National Monitoring Plan Offshore stations which fall under the remit of DANI. The secondary role was to measure coastal nutrient levels along the NI coastline in relation to major riverine inputs. Thirdly cores and water samples were to be collected for the Biological Oceanography Programme. |
| Chief scientist | Matt Service (Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland) |
| Cruise report |  (0.08 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Irish Sea and St. George's Channel |
| Specific | Irish Sea |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| CTD stations | Quantity: number of stations = 12 Description: Deployment of the rosette water sampler to measure profiles for water and CTD data |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Gear research | Quantity: number of experiments = 1 Description: Experimental trawl with a 2m beam trawl undertaken to obtain samples of flatfish |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Dredge | Quantity: number of deployments = 1 Description: Naturalists dredge deployed in the Copeland Sound to obtain specimes of Modiolus modiolus |
| Grab | Quantity: number of measurements = 3 Description: 3 grabs made at the NMP station. Sediment samples obtained for fauna and chemical analysis |
| Core - soft bottom | Quantity: number of stations = 1 Description: Cores obtained with the multi-corer |
