Dataset Information

Dataset Name: Cruise 1986-16
Start: 19/09/1986
Finish: 12/10/1986
Number of stations: 174
Platform: R/V Bilim-2 (Bilim - 89BL - before 2006)
Port of Departure: Istanbul
Port of Return: Mersin

Cheif scientist: Prof. Ferit Bingel, IMS METU, Turkey
Investigators:
    Prof. Temel Oguz, IMS METU, Turkey
    Prof. Ozden Basturk, IMS METU, Turkey
    Dr. Sukru Besiktepe, IMS METU, Turkey
    Dr. Ali Cemal Gucu, IMS METU, Turkey
    Can Bizsel, IMS METU, Turkey

Objectives: Scientific investigations of mixing and transport of wastewater discharges in Turkish straits and Sea of Marmara; scientific researches within National Monitoring Programme in the Black Sea
Associated project(s): Golden Horn, Black Sea ISKI, Black Sea National Monitoring, İstanbul ISKI, IZMIT, ISTANBUL, CANAKKALE
Description:

Parameters list: COD, DOW, H2S, Hg/SW, HM, NO3-N+NO2-N, pH, PO4, Total Chl-a, TPH, TSS, Density, Salinity, Temperature, ITS-90

PI	ICES Data Type	Number	Unit
Prof. Ferit Bingel	CTD stations	174
	Other chemical oceanographic measurements	23
	Other dissolved gases	6
	Oxygen	20
	Oxygen	174
	Petroleum residues	16
	pH	20
	Phosphate	21
	Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, pheophytin, fluorescence)	9
	Suspended matter	20
	Thermosalinograph	174
	Trace elements	18

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, Black Sea Database

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