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RV Lough Foyle LF/14/98
Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |
Ship name (ship code) | RV Lough Foyle (74LG) |
Cruise identifier | LF/14/98 |
Cruise period | 1998-03-29 — 1998-03-31 |
Status | Completed |
Port of departure | Belfast, United Kingdom |
Port of return | Belfast, United Kingdom |
Purpose | Research |
Objectives | 1. To recover, service and redeploy instrument mooring at station 38A.
2. To assess temperature, salinity and nutrient distributions over depth at stations 38A and 47. 3. To assess oxygen consumption and denitrification at sediment-water interface at station 38A. (M Trimmer: Univ. Essex). |
Chief scientist | Brian Stewart (Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland) |
Cruise report | ![]() |
Ocean/sea areas | |
General | Irish Sea and St. George's Channel |
Specific | Western Irish Sea. |
Measurements | |
Physical oceanography | |
Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of samples = 1 Description: Rosette water sampler deployed to gather a bulk sample for the experiment. |
Biology and fisheries | |
Zooplankton | Quantity: number of samples = 1 Description: Zooplankton net deployed |
Geology and geophysics | |
Core - soft bottom | Quantity: number of samples = 1 Description: Box corer deployed to collect sediment for oxygen consumption and denitrification experiments. |
Moorings, landers, buoys | |
Biology and fisheries | |
Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence) | 53° 46' 46" N 5° 38' 4" W — Guard buoy recovered, checked and serviced before being redeployed. |
Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence) | 53° 47' 2" N 5° 38' 2" W — Instrument buoy recovered, serviced, reprogrammed and redeployed. |