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Unknown self-propelled small boat RATS/CTD311
Cruise plan
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | Unknown self-propelled small boat (ZZ99) |
| Cruise identifier | RATS/CTD311 |
| Cruise period | 2001-04-12 — 2001-04-12 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Rothera, Antarctica |
| Port of return | Rothera, Antarctica |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | The RaTS programme (Rothera Oceanographic and Biological Time Series) involves the long ter m monitoring of a nearshore marine environment and is focussed around two broad aims, 1) Provide a suite of oceanographic data that would provide environmental background to aid interpretation of the nearshore marine ecology and 2) Test a series of broad hypotheses concerning the pelagic-benthic coupling and environmental forcing of the nearshore environment. On an approximate weekly basis, an upper water column CTD cast is deployed with a discrete water sample taken at 15m. The water sample is analysed for macronutrients, chlorophyll, dissolved organic carbon, oxygen isotopes and microbial community. |
| Chief scientist | Andrew Clarke (British Antarctic Survey) |
| Project | RaTS |
| Coordinating body | BAS |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | South Atlantic Ocean |
| Specific | Ryder Bay northern Marguerite Bay Antarctica |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of stations = 1 Description: full CTD profile and water sample at 15m no chl data fluorometer unreliable |
| CTD stations | Quantity: number of stations = 1 Description: full CTD profile and water sample at 15m no chl data fluorometer unreliable |
| Data held at BODC | Get data |
| Discrete samples | |
| 1 CTD frame plus rosette sampler |
