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RV Corystes COR9/02
Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |
Ship name (ship code) | RV Corystes (74RY) |
Cruise identifier | COR9/02 |
Cruise period | 2002-07-12 — 2002-07-22 |
Status | Completed |
Port of departure | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
Port of return | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
Purpose | Research |
Objectives | 1. To study the impact of various types of seabed disturbance on sediment geochemistry (A1224).
2. Service SmartBuoys at the Outer Gabbard and The Warp (AE004). 3. Recover the Waverider at the Warp. |
Chief scientist | David Brian Sivyer (Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science Lowestoft Laboratory) |
Cruise report | (0.09 MB) |
Ocean/sea areas | |
General | North Sea |
Measurements | |
Physical oceanography | |
Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of stations = 14 |
CTD stations | Quantity: number of stations = 14 |
Surface drifters/drifting buoys | Quantity: number of deployments = 2 Description: SmartBuoy and guard buoy |
Surface drifters/drifting buoys | Quantity: number of recoveries = 2 Description: SmartBuoy and guard buoy |
Instrumented wave measurements | Quantity: number of recoveries = 1 Description: Waverider |
Other physical oceanographic measurements | Quantity: number of experiments = 2 Description: variability of PSA, porosity and sediment chlorophyll |
Biology and fisheries | |
Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence) | Quantity: number of experiments = 2 Description: variability of PSA, porosity and sediment chlorophyll |
Phytobenthos | Quantity: number of stations = 14 Description: Jennings beam trawl- epibenthos, species and abundance |
Zoobenthos | Quantity: number of stations = 14 Description: Hamon grab: in-fauna, species and abundance |
Zoobenthos | Quantity: number of stations = 14 Description: Jennings beam trawl- epibenthos, species and abundance |
Geology and geophysics | |
Grab | Quantity: number of stations = 14 Description: Hamon grab: in-fauna, species and abundance |
Core - soft bottom | Quantity: number of stations = 14 Description: Nioz |
Long/short range side scan sonar | Quantity: number of stations = 14 Description: assess trawling impact |