RV Lough Foyle LF/20/98
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Lough Foyle (74LG) |
| Cruise identifier | LF/20/98 |
| Cruise period | 1998-05-10 — 1998-05-13 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Belfast, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Belfast, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To investigate the effect of tidal current on nutrient concentrations in the immediate environment of the moored water sampler.
2. To assess the possibility of a nutrient rich environment around the moored water sampler. 3. To assess temperature, salinity and nutrient distributions over depth at stations 38A and 47. 4. 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 |  (0.15 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Irish Sea and St. George's Channel |
| Specific | Western Irish Sea |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| CTD stations | Quantity: number of measurements = 1 Description: CTD and water sampler deployed. |
| Chemical oceanography | |
| Oxygen | Quantity: number of samples = 1 Description: Box corer was deployed to aquire sediment for oxygen consumption and denitrification experiments. |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Zooplankton | Quantity: number of samples = 1 Description: Zooplankton net was deployed |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Core - soft bottom | Quantity: number of samples = 1 Description: Box corer was deployed to aquire sediment for oxygen consumption and denitrification experiments. |
| Moorings, landers, buoys | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Water bottle stations | 53° 46' 48" N 5° 37' 59" W — The guard buoy was recovered, upgraded, checked and redeployed. |
| Water bottle stations | 53° 46' 59" N 5° 38' 4" W — Instrumenting and bouy were recovered, serviced, reprogrammed and redeployed. |