Dataset Information

Dataset Name: Cruise 1990-01
Start: 05/02/1990
Finish: 28/02/1990
Number of stations: 273
Platform: R/V Bilim-2 (Bilim - 89BL - before 2006)
Port of Departure: Tuzla
Port of Return: Istanbul

Cheif scientist: Prof. Ferit Bingel, IMS METU, Turkey
Investigators:
    Dr. Ali Cemal Gucu, IMS METU, Turkey
    Dursun Avsar, IMS METU, Turkey
    Prof. Zahit Uysal, IMS METU, Turkey
    Ali Ismen, IMS METU, Turkey
    Dr. Mustafa Unsal, IMS METU, Turkey

Objectives: Scientific researches within Black Sea National Stock Monitoring Programme
Associated project(s): TUBITAK Black Sea Stock Assessment
Description:

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

PI	ICES Data Type	Number	Unit
Prof. Ferit Bingel	CTD stations	273
	Nitrite	1
	Other chemical oceanographic measurements	39
	Other dissolved gases	15
	Oxygen	40
	Oxygen	273
	Petroleum residues	36
	Phosphate	39
	Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, pheophytin, fluorescence)	28
	Replicate Si?	40
	Routine standard meteorological measurements	27
	Silicate	40
	Suspended matter	40
	Thermosalinograph	273
	Trace elements	29

Instruments: Seabird 9/11, Nansen bottles, Scientific echosound
Instrument types (L05 code): CTD profilers, discrete water samplers, single-beam echosounders, pelagic trawl nets, 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