Dataset Information

Dataset Name: Cruise 1986-15
Start: 27/08/1986
Finish: 31/08/1986
Number of stations: 59
Platform: R/V Bilim-2 (Bilim - 89BL - before 2006)
Port of Departure: Istanbul
Port of Return: Istanbul

Cheif scientist: Prof. Cemal Saydam, IMS METU, Turkey
Investigators:
    Prof. Muhammed Abdul Latif, IMS METU, Turkey
    Prof. Ozden Basturk, IMS METU, Turkey
    Prof. Aysen Yilmaz, IMS METU, Turkey
    Ayse Yucel Aydin, IMS METU, Turkey
    Dilek Gocmen, IMS METU, Turkey
    Ali Cengiz, IMS METU, Turkey

Objectives: Scientific investigations of mixing and transport of wastewater discharges in Turkish straits and Sea of Marmara
Associated project(s): ISKI
Description:

Parameters list: COD, DOW, Hg/SW, HM, NO3-N+NO2-N, PO4, Total Chl-a, TPH, TSS, Density, Salinity, Temperature, ITS-90

PI	ICES Data Type	Number	Unit
Prof. Muhammed Abdul Latif	CTD stations	59
	Other chemical oceanographic measurements	53
	Oxygen	53
	Oxygen	59
	Petroleum residues	20
	Phosphate	51
	Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, pheophytin, fluorescence)	31
	Suspended matter	50
	Thermosalinograph	59
	Trace elements	26

Instruments: Seabird 9/11, Nansen bottles
Instrument types (L05 code): CTD profilers, discrete water samplers

Data availability (SDN code): RS
Storage medium: ASCII files, Excell worksheets

Provider: Institute of Marine Sciences, Middle East Technical University
Address: P.O.Box 28
Post Code: 33731
City: Erdemli, Icel
Country: Turkey
Tel.: +90-3245212150
Fax: +90-3245212327
E-mail: admin@ims.metu.edu.tr
Contact person: Ahmet E. Kideys
Contact e-mail: kideys@ims.metu.edu.tr

Last update: 20/11/2008