RV Cirolana CIR7/73
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Cirolana (74CZ) |
| Cruise identifier | CIR7/73 |
| Cruise period | 1973-08-17 — 1973-09-12 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Grimsby, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Grimsby, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To take part in the International 0-group survey of the Barents Sea.
2. To sample benthos north and west of Spitsbergen. 3. To make nanoplankton studies. |
| Chief scientist | R W Blacker (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.15 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Barents Sea |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Bathythermograph | Quantity: number of profiles = 6 |
| Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of stations = 24 Description: 10 with T only |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Primary productivity | Quantity: number of stations = 19 |
| Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence) | |
| Phytoplankton | Quantity: number of stations = 19 |
| Pelagic bacteria/micro-organisms | Quantity: number of samples = 38 |
| Zoobenthos | Quantity: number of hauls = 11 |
| Pelagic fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 112 |
| Demersal fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 112 |
| Other biological/fisheries measurement | Quantity: activity duration in days = 25 Description: Continuous measurement of deep scattering layers |
| Meteorology | |
| Occasional standard measurements | |
| Other meteorological measurements | Description: ice observations |
| Other meteorological measurements | Description: sea and swell |
