Data Trawler - Survey Details

FR 04/97 (alternative identifier: FR199704)    - is a Marine National Facility voyage

Period: 1997-05-08 00:00 to 1997-05-23 00:00 Local

Duration: 15.00 days

From: Townsville To: Madang

Region: Papua New Guinea coast

Ship: Franklin [details]

Description: Cruise FR 04/97 (cruise 1 in a series of 4 for TROPICS97 - Tropical River-Ocean Processes in Coastal Settings) was undertaken to study the effects that strongly flowing, tropical rivers with heavy loads of sediments and nutrients have on the coastal waters and seafloor and, further downstream, on the food chains of the ocean basins that they feed in to. The study areas are - the Sepik River plume that feeds out over the deep waters of the continental slope of northern Papua New Guinea and the Fly River plume that feeds onto a broad continental shelf in the Gulf of Papua. Survey methods included ADCPs, CTDs, sediment trap/mooring deployments, drifters, Aquashuttle, grasshopper, Gafanoto (platform includes a CTD, optical backscatterance sensor, pumps and sample bags) and underway instrumentation. Water and sediment samples were collected for on board and laboratory analysis. During daylight hours bird observations were recorded every 10 mins including depth, salinity and temperature in the Coral Sea/Gulf of Papua, and near the coastal plume of the Sepik River. Related cruises are FR 05/97, FR 06/97 and FR 07/97.

Leader: G. Cresswell (CSIRO)

Project: Regional Oceanography 1997-2000 [details]

Marlin Metadata:-

CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere: RV Franklin SeaSoar Data Overview (1988 - 2002) [details]

Franklin Voyage FR 04/97 ADCP Data [details]

Franklin Voyage FR 04/97 CTD Data [details]

Franklin Voyage FR 04/97 Hydrology Data [details]

Franklin Voyage FR 04/97 Underway Data [details]

Participants - on ship:-

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Marine National Facility Reports - plans, summaries and data processing

• FR199704 Voyage Summary - includes preliminary results, voyage narrative, types of data collected with C77/ROSCOP codes.

• FR199704 Voyage Plan - includes objectives, investigator details, proposed data collection, voyage track and equipment to be used.

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