RV Sea Vigil SV5B
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Sea Vigil (74S9) |
| Cruise identifier | SV5B |
| Cruise period | 1994-02-23 — 1994-02-23 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Goole, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Hull, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | RV Sea Vigil LOIS core measurements survey. |
| Chief scientist | Robin M H Howland (Plymouth Marine Laboratory) |
| Project | LOIS (RACS) |
| Cruise report |  (0.72 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Specific | Humber Estuary and feeder rivers |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Surface measurements underway (T,S) | Description: Measurements taken every minute along an axial transect of the estuary from Goole to Spurn Head. |
| Chemical oceanography | |
| Oxygen | Description: Measurements taken every minute along an axial transect of the estuary from Goole to Spurn Head. |
| Phosphate | Description: Continous monitoring throughout an axial transect of the estuary from Goole to Spurn Head. |
| Nitrate | Description: Continous monitoring throughout an axial transect of the estuary from Goole to Spurn Head. |
| Nitrite | Description: Continous monitoring throughout an axial transect of the estuary from Goole to Spurn Head. |
| Ammonia | Description: Discrete samples taken at station positions along an axial transect of the estuary from Goole to Spurn Head. |
| Silicate | Description: Continous monitoring throughout an axial transect of the estuary from Goole to Spurn Head. |
| pH | Description: Continous monitoring throughout an axial transect of the estuary from Goole to Spurn Head. |
| Contamination | |
| Suspended matter | Description: Measurements taken every minute along an axial transect of the estuary from Goole to Spurn Head. |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Particulate organic matter (inc POC, PON) | Description: Discrete samples taken at station positions along an axial transect of the estuary from Goole to Spurn Head. |
| Data held at BODC | |
| Discrete samples | |
| 36 Sample taken from ship's non-toxic supply | Concentration of suspended particulate material in the water column Alkalinity, acidity and pH of the water column |
