RV Lough Foyle LF/31/98
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Lough Foyle (74LG) |
| Cruise identifier | LF/31/98 |
| Cruise period | 1998-07-27 — 1998-07-31 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Belfast, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Belfast, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Trials |
| Objectives | Evaluation of u-tow Phytoplankton sampler.
1. To perform trials and sea acceptance test with new u-tow designed to sample microplankton. 2. To develop parameterisation necessary to write conditional sampling software. 3. To collect zooplankton samples using the plankton sampling mechanism in the u-tow and vertical bongo net hauls. |
| Chief scientist | S Ivan Heaney (Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland) |
| Cruise report |  (0.46 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Irish Sea and St. George's Channel |
| Specific | Irish Sea |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| CTD stations | Quantity: number of observations = 3 Description: Testing the UTOW, having to sclean sections due to sediment blocking various parts of the machine. Various CTD profiles were also made. |
| Moorings, landers, buoys | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| CTD stations | 53° 46' 59" N 5° 37' 59" W — CTD profiles and BONGO net hauls made. |
| CTD stations | 53° 27' 57" N 3° 24' 56" W — CTD profiles and BONGO net hauls made. |
| CTD stations | 53° 35' 35" N 4° 16' 56" W — CTD profiles and BONGO net hauls made. |
| CTD stations | 53° 42' 41" N 5° 5' 21" W — CTD profiles and BONGO net hauls made. |
