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Project details
| Title: | National Facility External Users: Ross Hill (UTS) |
| Id: | 2359 |
| Acronym: | National Facility External Users: Hill, R. |
| Investigator(s): | Ross Hill
University of Technology, Sydney [details] |
| Description: | |
| Years: | 2008 |
List of surveys that this project was on.
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| Survey | Investigator | Description |
|---|---|---|
| ST 03/2008 [details] |
Ross Hill (UTS) | Voyage Objectives: i) To make targeted swath mapping around the 400 m isobath from Gladstone to Sydney;ii) To make CTD casts for nutrients and take Rectangular Midwater Trawls (RMT) and surface neuston net hauls inside and outside eddies that are encountered on the voyage south (to be guided by MODIS images and BlueLink forecasts during the week before departure); most plankton samples will be preserved in formalin;iii) To make standard 1 hour counts of seabirds and any marine mammals at dawn, midday and dusk from the bridge, and separate, particular counts in areas leading up to and within any particular oceanographic feature (e.g. an eddy or front); iv) To monitor the ADCP and underway data (T, S and fluorescence at 4 m intake) as the vessel crosses eddies and other oceanographic features;v) To collect seawater samples and trial new instrumentation in the Fish Lab. Taken from ST 3/2008 Voyage Plan |