RV Lough Foyle LF/39/98
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Lough Foyle (74LG) |
| Cruise identifier | LF/39/98 |
| Cruise period | 1998-09-20 — 1998-09-22 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Belfast, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Belfast, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To assess temperature, salinity and nutrient distributions over depth at stations 38A and 47.
2. To assess the performance of a moored W. S Ocean automated water sampler. 3. To redeploy the McLane automated water sampler at station 38A. 4. To assess nutrient and chlorophyll concentrations along a transect between Liverpool Bay and Dundalk Bay. During the cruise the A-frame, main trawl winches, both hydrographic winches and the ship's clean sea-water supply were used |
| Chief scientist | Brian Stewart (Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland) |
| Cruise report |  (0.16 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Irish Sea and St. George's Channel |
| Specific | Irish sea, Dundalk Bay and Liverpool Bay. |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Subsurface temperature and salinity measurements | Quantity: number of stations = 11 Description: Data from the depth profile |
| Chemical oceanography | |
| Other chemical oceanographic measurements | Quantity: number of stations = 1 Description: Sediment samples from the mini-corer were sub-sampled for C/N estimation |
| Other chemical oceanographic measurements | Quantity: number of stations = 11 Description: Nutient data from the depth profile |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence) | Quantity: number of stations = 11 Description: Chlorophyll a data from the depth profile. Sediment samples from the mini-corer were sub-sampled for chlorophyll a. |
| Zooplankton | Quantity: number of stations = 2 Description: The zooplankton net was deployed for 3 hauls at both stations 38A & 47 |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Core - soft bottom | Quantity: number of stations = 1 Description: Bowers & Connelly mini-corer was deployed at station 38A |
| Moorings, landers, buoys | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Water bottle stations | 53° 47' 3" N 5° 37' 55" W — McLane and W.S Ocean water samplers deployed at the mooring site |
| Water bottle stations | 53° 46' 58" N 5° 38' 7" W — Guard buoy (id no.1) redeployed after being checked for corrosion and replacement of components where necessary |
