RV Lough Foyle LF/42/2000
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Lough Foyle (74LG) |
| Cruise identifier | LF/42/2000 |
| Cruise period | 2000-11-01 — 2000-11-02 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Belfast, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Belfast, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To maintain a nutrient monitoring programme at station 38A.
2. To assess temperature, salinity and nutrient distributions over depth at stations 38A and 47. |
| Chief scientist | Brian Stewart (Department of Agriculture and Rural Development for Northern Ireland) |
| Cruise report |  (0.11 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Irish Sea and St. George's Channel |
| Specific | Western Irish Sea, Dundalk Bay. |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Subsurface temperature and salinity measurements | Quantity: number of stations = 2 Description: CTD/Rosette sampler deployed to get a temperature and salinity depth profile |
| Chemical oceanography | |
| Phosphate | Quantity: number of stations = 2 Description: CTD/Rosette sampler deployed for nutrient data |
| Nitrate | Quantity: number of stations = 2 Description: CTD/Rosette sampler deployed for nutrient data |
| Total - N | Quantity: number of deployments = 1 Description: Bowers&Connelly mini-corer deployed at station 38A, sediment sub-sampled for nitrogen |
| Ammonia | Quantity: number of stations = 2 Description: CTD/Rosette sampler deployed for nutrient data |
| Other chemical oceanographic measurements | Quantity: number of deployments = 1 Description: Bowers&Connelly mini-corer deployed at station 38A, sediment subsampled for total carbon |
| Other chemical oceanographic measurements | Quantity: number of stations = 2 Description: CTD/Rosette sampler deployed for nutrient data. Inorganic N, silica and urea. |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence) | Quantity: number of stations = 2 Description: CTD/Rosette sampler deployed for chlorophyll a data. Sediment collected from the Bowers&Connelly mini-corer was subsampled for chlorophyll |
| Zooplankton | Quantity: number of hauls = 3 Description: Net hauls taken at stations 38A and 47 |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Core - soft bottom | Quantity: number of deployments = 1 Description: Bowers&Connelly mini-corer deployed at station 38A for sediment |
