Dataset Information

Dataset Name: Cruise 1988-18
Start: 19/09/1988
Finish: 29/09/1988
Number of stations: 112
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:
    Dr. Mustafa Unsal, IMS METU, Turkey
    Emin Hatipoglu, IMS METU, Turkey
    Murat Buyukay, IMS METU, Turkey
    Prof. Ahmet Erkan Kideys, IMS METU, Turkey
    Ferit Gure, IMS METU, Turkey

Objectives: Scientific investigations of mixing and transport of wastewater discharges in Turkish straits and Sea of Marmara; scientific researches within NATO Izmit project and National Monitoring Programme in the Sea of Marmara
Associated project(s): Marmara National Monitoring, ISKI Straits
Description:

Parameters list: DOW, H2S, Hg/SW, HM, NO2-N, NO3-N+NO2-N, PO4, Si, TOC, Total Chl-a, TPH, TSS, Atmospheric Pressure, Cloudness, Visibility, Wave State, Wind, Density, Salinity, Temperature, ITS-90

PI	ICES Data Type	Number	Unit
Prof. Cemal Saydam	CTD stations	112
	Other chemical oceanographic measurements	47
	Oxygen	47
	Oxygen	112
	Petroleum residues	40
	Phosphate	34
	Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, pheophytin, fluorescence)	13
	Suspended matter	46
	Thermosalinograph	112
	Trace elements	10

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

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: 21/11/2008