Data Trawler - Survey Details

SS 06/2005 (alternative identifier: SS200506)    - is a Marine National Facility voyage

Period: 2005-05-31 00:30 to 2005-06-22 21:30 UTC

Duration: 22.88 days

From: Darwin To: Darwin

Region: Timor Sea

Ship: Southern Surveyor [details]

Description: Southern Surveyor National Facility voyage SS200506.
Biogeochemical processes, effects and signatures of hydrocarbon and ground-water seepage within a tropical, carbonate-rich system: Australia's Timor Sea.
Voyage Objectives (from Voyage Plan)
1. Discover seeps of methane, oil, and brines on the seafloor, using wheelhouse sounder showing bubble plumes, seismic transects, swath mapping, surface and near bottom water sampling, and sediment coring tools. Gas chromatographic measurements of methane in water will be done in the ship laboratory.
2. Obtain sediment cores from soft and hard bottom seafloor, and subsample the cores carefully for hydrocarbon and inorganic chemical measurements, and preserve samples for analyses in our home laboratories.
3. Obtain samples of relict and living biota from the seafloor in association with submarine seeps, using sled dredges, rock dredges, Smith-MacIntyre Grab, and nearbottom water samples.
4. Use the swath mapping and seismic tools on the ship to locate best sites for biological and chemical sampling of the water column and seafloor.
5. Measure the daily consumption and production of oxygen in the water column to estimate primary production and respiration. Also to sample the zooplankton, which consume the products of primary production.
6. Obtain drill cores of living and dead corals from the tops of shoal mounds, to measure the history of hydrocarbon abundance, and the age of the mound tops.

Leader: G. Brunskill (AIMS)

Project: National Facility External Users: G. Brunskill (AIMS) [details]

Marlin Metadata:-

Southern Surveyor Voyage SS 06/2005 ADCP Data [details]

Southern Surveyor Voyage SS 06/2005 CTD Data [details]

Southern Surveyor Voyage SS 06/2005 Hydrology Data [details]

Southern Surveyor Voyage SS 06/2005 Multibeam Echosounder Data [details]

Southern Surveyor Voyage SS 06/2005 Underway Data [details]

Participants - on ship:-

This list includes those that may have only been on part of the voyage. See voyage reports on 'Reports and Maps' tab for details.

Marine National Facility Reports - plans, summaries and data processing

• SS200506 Scientific Highlight - report of the key outputs

• SS200506 Underway Data Processing Report - details of data processing steps, calibration information, instruments used and any issues with the data.

• SS200506 Voyage Summary - includes preliminary results, voyage narrative, types of data collected with C77/ROSCOP codes.

• SS200506 Voyage Plan - includes objectives, investigator details, proposed data collection, voyage track and equipment to be used.

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Publications, reports and datasets from this voyage.

Data publishing

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