RV Edward Forbes 5/77
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Edward Forbes (74EF) |
| Cruise identifier | 5/77 |
| Cruise period | 1977-04-18 — 1977-05-03 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Barry, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Barry, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | The cruise was one of a series which commenced in 1974 to investigate the structure of estuarine fine sediment suspensions as part of the IOS Cohesive Sediment Mobility Project. |
| Chief scientist | Robert Kirby (Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Taunton) |
| Cruise report |  (0.20 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Bristol Channel |
| Specific | Severn Estuary and Inner Bristol Channel |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Current profiler (eg ADCP) | Quantity: number of profiles = 6 Description: Suspended sediment correlation experiments took place in the Severn. Measurements of silt were taken. Verticle profiles, that took 5 mins. |
| Contamination | |
| Suspended matter | Quantity: number of profiles = 6 Description: Suspended sediment correlation experiments took place in the Severn. Measurements of silt were taken. Verticle profiles, that took 5 mins. |
