RV Lough Foyle LF/20/96
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Lough Foyle (74LG) |
| Cruise identifier | LF/20/96 |
| Cruise period | 1996-05-12 — 1996-05-15 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Belfast, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Belfast, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To assess temperature, salinity and nutrient distributions over a grid of stations in the north western Irish Sea.
2. To recover, service and redeploy existing mooring and instrumentation located at station 45 on the sampling grid. 3. To redeploy mooring with water samplers, previously recovered 7 May 1996, adjacent to existing mooring at station 45 on the sampling grid. |
| Chief scientist | Brian Stewart (Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland) |
| Cruise report |  (0.12 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Irish Sea and St. George's Channel |
| Specific | NW Irish Sea and North Channel |
| Track charts | (0.02 MB) |
| Moorings, landers, buoys | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| CTD stations | 53° 42' 59" N 6° 9' 0" W — CTD, Secchi, Corer, Sediment C/N and Chlorophyll a |
| CTD stations | 53° 27' 59" N 6° 2' 59" W — CTD, Secchi |
| CTD stations | 54° 12' 59" N 5° 30' 59" W — CTD, Secchi |
| CTD stations | 53° 57' 59" N 5° 49' 59" W — CTD, Secchi |
| CTD stations | 53° 51' 0" N 6° 10' 59" W — CTD, Secchi |
| CTD stations | 54° 6' 0" N 5° 20' 59" W — CTD, Secchi |
| CTD stations | 53° 27' 59" N 5° 27' 59" W — CTD, Secchi |
| CTD stations | 54° 12' 59" N 5° 15' 59" W — CTD, Secchi |
| CTD stations | 54° 21' 0" N 5° 24' 59" W — CTD, Secchi |
| CTD stations | 54° 21' 0" N 5° 9' 59" W — CTD, Secchi |
| CTD stations | 53° 21' 0" N 5° 30' 0" W — CTD Secchi |
| CTD stations | 54° 36' 0" N 5° 9' 59" W — CTD, Secchi |
| CTD stations | 54° 27' 59" N 5° 22' 59" W — CTD, Secchi |
| CTD stations | 53° 51' 0" N 5° 33' 59" W — CTD, Secchi (C/N and Oygen @ 10m intervals) |
| CTD stations | 53° 42' 59" N 5° 31' 59" W — CTD, Secchi, Corer, Sediment C/N and Chloropyhll a, Mooring Service |
| CTD stations | 54° 40' 59" N 5° 19' 59" W — CTD, Secchi |
| CTD stations | 53° 36' 59" N 6° 2' 59" W — CTD, Secchi |
| CTD stations | 53° 36' 59" N 5° 27' 59" W — CTD, Secchi (C/N and Oygen @ 10m intervals) |
| CTD stations | 54° 6' 0" N 5° 51' 59" W — CTD, Secchi |
| Other physical oceanographic measurements | 53° 42' 59" N 6° 9' 0" W — CTD, Secchi, Corer, Sediment C/N and Chlorophyll a |
| Other physical oceanographic measurements | 53° 57' 59" N 5° 49' 59" W — CTD, Secchi |
| Other physical oceanographic measurements | 54° 6' 0" N 5° 20' 59" W — CTD, Secchi |
| Other physical oceanographic measurements | 54° 12' 59" N 5° 15' 59" W — CTD, Secchi |
| Other physical oceanographic measurements | 54° 21' 0" N 5° 9' 59" W — CTD, Secchi |
| Other physical oceanographic measurements | 53° 51' 0" N 5° 33' 59" W — CTD, Secchi (C/N and Oygen @ 10m intervals) |
| Other physical oceanographic measurements | 53° 36' 59" N 5° 27' 59" W — CTD, Secchi (C/N and Oygen @ 10m intervals) |
| Other physical oceanographic measurements | 53° 42' 59" N 5° 31' 59" W — CTD, Secchi, Corer, Sediment C/N and Chloropyhll a, Mooring Service |
| Other physical oceanographic measurements | 53° 27' 59" N 5° 27' 59" W — CTD, Secchi |
| Other physical oceanographic measurements | 53° 21' 0" N 5° 30' 0" W — CTD Secchi |
| Other physical oceanographic measurements | 53° 36' 59" N 6° 2' 59" W — CTD, Secchi |
| Other physical oceanographic measurements | 54° 21' 0" N 5° 24' 59" W — CTD, Secchi |
| Other physical oceanographic measurements | 54° 6' 0" N 5° 51' 59" W — CTD, Secchi |
| Other physical oceanographic measurements | 53° 27' 59" N 6° 2' 59" W — CTD, Secchi |
| Other physical oceanographic measurements | 54° 36' 0" N 5° 9' 59" W — CTD, Secchi |
| Other physical oceanographic measurements | 54° 27' 59" N 5° 22' 59" W — CTD, Secchi |
| Other physical oceanographic measurements | 53° 51' 0" N 6° 10' 59" W — CTD, Secchi |
| Other physical oceanographic measurements | 54° 40' 59" N 5° 19' 59" W — CTD, Secchi |
| Other physical oceanographic measurements | 54° 12' 59" N 5° 30' 59" W — CTD, Secchi |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence) | 53° 42' 59" N 5° 31' 59" W — CTD, Secchi, Corer, Sediment C/N and Chloropyhll a, Mooring Service |
| Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence) | 53° 42' 59" N 6° 9' 0" W — CTD, Secchi, Corer, Sediment C/N and Chlorophyll a |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Core - soft bottom | 53° 42' 59" N 5° 31' 59" W — CTD, Secchi, Corer, Sediment C/N and Chloropyhll a, Mooring Service |
| Core - soft bottom | 53° 42' 59" N 6° 9' 0" W — CTD, Secchi, Corer, Sediment C/N and Chlorophyll a |
