RV Lough Foyle LF/27/96
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Lough Foyle (74LG) |
| Cruise identifier | LF/27/96 |
| Cruise period | 1996-06-30 — 1996-07-11 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Belfast, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Belfast, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To study microplankton community production and loss at three 'process' stations in the Irish Sea (Dundalk Bay, Liverpool Bay and the summer stratified region).
2. To undertake a limited survey of the distribution of phytoplankton and zooplankton in the vicinity of the three 'process' stations. 3. To undertake trials with a multiplankton sampler. 4. To examine temporal changes in particulate organic carbon and zooplankton faecal pellet carbon over 24 hours at station 45 in the central sratified region. Trials with the multiplankton sampler were conducted by M. Dickey-Collas during cruise LF2696 and were not repeated during this cruise. |
| Chief scientist | Richard Gowen (Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland) |
| Cruise report |  (0.14 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Irish Sea and St. George's Channel |
| Specific | Irish Sea |
| Track charts | (0.02 MB) |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Other physical oceanographic measurements | Quantity: number of samples = 1 Description: Sampling of a water column looking at the vertical distribution of temperature, phytoplankton chlorophyll and dissolved inorganic nitrogen. No. of samples not specified. |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence) | Quantity: number of samples = 1 Description: Sampling of a water column looking at the vertical distribution of temperature, phytoplankton chlorophyll and dissolved inorganic nitrogen. No. of samples not specified. |
| Phytoplankton | Quantity: activity duration in days = 1 Description: Sampling of multiplankton over a 24 hour period. |
| Phytoplankton | Quantity: number of samples = 1 Description: Sampling of a water column looking at the vertical distribution of temperature, phytoplankton chlorophyll and dissolved inorganic nitrogen. No. of samples not specified. |
| Zooplankton | Quantity: activity duration in days = 1 Description: Sampling of multiplankton over a 24 hour period. |
