RV Lough Foyle LF/35/2001
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Lough Foyle (74LG) |
| Cruise identifier | LF/35/2001 |
| Cruise period | 2001-08-26 — 2001-08-29 |
| 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. 3. To assess nutrient, chlorophyll, salinity distributions across the frontal region in the north western Irish Sea. |
| Chief scientist | Brian Stewart (Department of Agriculture and Rural Development for Northern Ireland) |
| Cruise report |  (0.31 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Irish Sea and St. George's Channel |
| Specific | Irish Sea |
| Track charts | (0.05 MB) |
| Measurements | |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Zooplankton | Quantity: number of deployments = 2 Description: Deployment of the rosette water sampler and zooplankton nets. |
| Zooplankton | Quantity: number of deployments = 2 Description: Rosette water sampler and zooplankton nets were deployed. |
| Moorings, landers, buoys | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Water bottle stations | 53° 46' 53" N 5° 38' 2" W — A mooring was recovered and serviced. The thermistor chain and fluorometer/CTD was removed and the data downloaded. The water sampler was removed an replaced and the buoy was then redeployed. |
