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RV Sarsia 8/71
Cruise plan
Cruise Info. | |
Ship name (ship code) | RV Sarsia (74SR) |
Cruise identifier | 8/71 |
Cruise period | 1971-12-07 — 1971-12-09 |
Status | Completed |
Objectives | Western Channel Grid |
Chief scientist | Gerald T Boalch (Marine Biological Association of the UK) |
Ocean/sea areas | |
General | English Channel Irish Sea and St. George's Channel |
Measurements | |
Physical oceanography | |
Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of stations = 20 Description: 3 T bottom |
CTD stations | Quantity: number of stations = 20 |
Transparency (eg transmissometer) | Quantity: 3 |
Chemical oceanography | |
Phosphate | Quantity: 16 |
Total - P | Quantity: 16 |
Nitrate | Quantity: 16 |
Nitrite | Quantity: 16 |
Silicate | Quantity: 16 |
Biology and fisheries | |
Primary productivity | Quantity: 3 |
Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence) | Quantity: 3 |
Particulate organic matter (inc POC, PON) | Quantity: 3 |
Dissolved organic matter (inc DOC) | Quantity: 16 Description: organic nitrogen & phosphorus only |
Phytoplankton | Quantity: 10 |
Zooplankton | Quantity: 1 Description: 2m young fish trawl |
Eggs and larvae | Quantity: 1 Description: 2m young fish trawl |
Meteorology | |
Other meteorological measurements | Description: sea and swell |