CRUISE SUMMARY REPORT
CRUISE Name : ADRICOSM-05No :
CRUISE PERIOD start : 03 november 2005 to end : 10 november 2005
PORT OF DEPARTURE Ancona (ITALY)
PORT OF RETURN Ancona (ITALY)
SHIP Name : DALLAPORTACall Sign : IYVQ
Type of ship : trawl research vessel (35 m.)
RESPONSIBLE LABORATORY Name : CNR-ISMAR-AN
Address : Largo Fiera della Pesca, 2 Ancona, 60125
Country : ITALY
CHIEF SCIENTIST(S) Name : Mauro Marini CNR-ISMAR-AN
OBJECTIVES AND BRIEF NARRATIVE OF CRUISE
First cruise of project ADRICOSM, included the Vieste-Split transect (NRL project),
the Pomo transect (LTER project) and the monitoring of two ENI methane extraction platform (ENI project).
The scientific work started with the transect Brindisi-Durres (15 CTD and 89 samples).
The ship entered in Durres harbour to bring on board albanian and montenegro scientific crew:
Bledar Murtaj, Emirjeta Adhami, Shytaj Raslind from Albania,
Zoran Kljajic, Vesna Macic, Dina Dragovic from Montenegro and
Manuela Mulargia from Italy.
Aleksandar Jovicic from Montenegro was on board in a little stop in Bar harbour during the cruise.
Then the 5 transect of Drin Gulf are done(30 CTD and 141 samples), after the ship entered in
Bar harbour again (6 november) in order to deploy foreing crew and Mulargia.
On the 8 and 9 november Vieste-Split transect (9 CTD 60 samples) and Pomo transect (4 CTD) were carried out.
On the 9 and 10 "Clara Est" and "Naide" site were monitored (8 CTD 32 samples each).
In beetewn the two sites, Marini was deployed in Ancona.
The SBE19plus CTD was used instead the usual SBE911plus, which was lost in September, and
the second 911plus was sent to be used in the antarctic cruise.
All the casts were limited to 210 meters depth, due to the sea cable length.
The italian scientific crew was: Marini, Grilli, Campanelli and Caccamo.
PROJECT name : ADRICOSM-ext
Coordinanting body : INGV-Bologna
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS
| name | body | address | country | e-mail |
A | Elio Paschini | CNR-ISMAR-AN |
Largo Fiera della Pesca,2 60125 Ancona | ITALY | e.paschini@ismar.cnr.it |
B | Mauro Marini | as before | m.marini@ismar.cnr.it |
C | Zoran Kljajic | IBM-Kotor |
Dobrota bb, 85330 Kotor | MONTENEGRO | zkljajic@ibmk.org |
C | Mitat Sanxhaku | AL-HIM |
Durresi, 219 Tirana | ALBANIA | |
MOORINGS, BOTTOM MOUNTED GEAR AND DRIFTING SYSTEMS
PI | Latitude | Longitude | TYPE | DESCRIPTION |
- | - | - | - | --------- |
SUMMARY OF MEASUREMENTS AND SAMPLES TAKEN
PI | NO | UNITS | TYPE | DESCRIPTION |
A | 74 | casts | H10 |
SBE19plus(CNR-ISMAR-FG property) (C, T, D ), SBE43 (Oxy), TURNER SCUFA(Fl,Tur) |
A | 69 | casts | H09 |
Carousel SBE32 compact(CNR-ISMAR-FG property) with 6 bottles of 1,7 litres |
B | 36 | samples | H21 | Oxygen Winkler method
on board analysis with METROHM Tritino 720 and sampler 760 |
B | 354 | samples | H22, H24, H25, H76, H26 |
Phosphate, Nitrate, Nitrite, Ammonia, Silicate on shore analysis
with Autoanalizer BRAN+LUEBBE model QuAAtro (2 Ch.) |
B | 230 | samples | B02 |
Phytoplankton Pigments (Chlorophyl a, b, c) on shore analysis with HPLC DIONEX model PDA100+GP50 |
C | 2 | samples | P02 | Trace heavy metal on shore analysis |
D | 10 | samples | H23, H75 | Total-P, Total-N on shore analysis |
TRACK CHART : none
GENERAL OCEAN AREA(S) : Eastern Mediterranean Sea (179 Marsden Square)
SPECIFIC AREAS : North Adriatic Sea