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RV Lough Foyle LF/26/98
Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |
Ship name (ship code) | RV Lough Foyle (74LG) |
Cruise identifier | LF/26/98 |
Cruise period | 1998-06-21 — 1998-06-23 |
Status | Completed |
Port of departure | Belfast, United Kingdom |
Port of return | Belfast, United Kingdom |
Purpose | Research |
Objectives | 1. To assess 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 caused by fish and other species gathering around the shelter of the moored water sampler. 3. To deploy a moored sampler best configured to minimise contamination from fish and other species in the immediate environment of the sampler. 4. To assess temperature, salinity and nutrient distributions over depth at stations 38A and 47. |
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 | |
Biology and fisheries | |
Zooplankton | Quantity: activity duration in days = 12 Description: Rosette water sampler and zooplankton net released |
Moorings, landers, buoys | |
Biology and fisheries | |
Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence) | 53° 46' 44" N 5° 38' 0" W — Instrument mooring and bouy recovered, parts removed and the guard bouy and anchor were the only parts redeployed at that point. |
Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence) | 53° 47' 5" N 5° 38' 4" W — Instrument mooring and bouy were then serviced, reprogrammed. Information was taken from them and then they were redeployed. |