Dataset Information

Dataset Name: Cruise 1988-22
Start: 02/12/1988
Finish: 18/12/1988
Number of stations: 102
Platform: R/V Bilim-2 (Bilim - 89BL - before 2006)
Port of Departure: Tasucu
Port of Return: Istanbul

Cheif scientist: Prof. Temel Oguz, IMS METU, Turkey
Investigators:
    Prof. Ozden Basturk, 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 MEDPOL and National Monitoring program in the Sea of Marmara.
Associated project(s): MEDPOL, MARMARA, ISKI
Description:

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

PI	ICES Data Type	Number	Unit
Prof. Temel Oguz	CTD stations	102
	Other chemical oceanographic measurements	27
	Oxygen	27
	Oxygen	102
	Petroleum residues	24
	Phosphate	27
	Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, pheophytin, fluorescence)	6
	Suspended matter	21
	Thermosalinograph	102
	Trace elements	24

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: 21/11/2008