Dataset Information

Dataset Name: Cruise 1987-31
Start: 06/12/1987
Finish: 20/12/1987
Number of stations: 17
Platform: R/V Bilim-2 (Bilim - 89BL - before 2006)
Port of Departure: Istanbul
Port of Return: Iskenderun

Cheif scientist: Prof. Ozden Basturk, IMS METU, Turkey
Investigators:
    Dr. Mustafa Ergin, IMS METU, Turkey
    Dursun Avsar, IMS METU, Turkey
    Ali Cengiz, IMS METU, Turkey
    Zeki Karabulut, IMS METU, Turkey

Objectives: Scientific investigations of mixing and transport of wastewater discharges in Turkish straits and Sea of Marmara; scientific researches within MEDPOL program in Aegean and Mediterranean seas
Associated project(s): ISKI HALIC, Aegean and Mediterranean MEDPOL
Description:

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

PI	ICES Data Type	Number	Unit
Prof. Ozden Basturk	CTD stations	17
	Grab	16
	Other chemical oceanographic measurements	17
	Oxygen	17
	Petroleum residues	16
	Phosphate	17
	Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, pheophytin, fluorescence)	12
	Replicate Si?	17
	Routine standard meteorological measurements	17
	Silicate	17
	Suspended matter	17
	Thermosalinograph	17
	Trace elements	16
	Trace metals	16

Instruments: Nansen bottles
Instrument types (L05 code): discrete water samplers, meteorological packages

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

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