POLMAR III

Name: POLMAR III
Start: 1978-04-13
End: 1978-04-19
Location: English Channel

Type	Oceanographic cruise
Set	This cruise is part of the set POLMAR
Ship	Le Suroît
Ship owner	Ifremer
Dates	13/04/1978 - 19/04/1978
Chief scientist(s)	MARCHAND Michel
	BIOGÉOCHIMIE ET ECOTOXICOLOGIE Centre Ifremer de Nantes Rue de l'Ile d'Yeu BP 21105 44311 Nantes Cedex 3 +33 (0)2 40 37 41 93 https://ccem.ifremer.fr/
DOI	10.17600/78005011
Objective	The POLMAR mission is part of the general programme to study the oil pollution of the Breton coasts after the grounding of the oil tanker AMOCO CADIZ. The objective of this third mission is to monitor the pollution in seawater and marine sediments.

Sea/Ocean

English Channel

(MANCHE)

Scientific Authority

LABORATOIRE ENVIRONNEMENT PROFOND

Centre Ifremer Bretagne

ZI Pointe du Diable

29280 Plouzané

+33 (0)2 98.22.43.04

https://www.umr-beep.fr/

Participating bodie(s)

CENTRE OCEANOLOGIQUE DE BRETAGNE BREST

Discipline(s)

METEOROLOGY
MARINE GEOSCIENCES
PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Code	Label	Quantity	PI
B02	Phytoplankton pigments (eg chloroph	51	MARCHAND Michel
B08	Phytoplankton	-	MARCHAND Michel
B09	Zooplankton	40	MARCHAND Michel
B13	Eggs & larvae	40	MARCHAND Michel
B90	Other biological/fisheries meas. Dosage aminoacides, ATP, ADP. AMP, enzymes	55 measurements	MARCHAND Michel
D90	Other physical oceanographic meas. Mesures isolees de temeprature et salinite en surface	51 measurements	MARCHAND Michel
G02	Grab	35 samples	MARCHAND Michel
G90	Other geosciences meas. Analyse physiaue et chimique des sédiments	-	MARCHAND Michel
H21	Oxygen	51 stations	MARCHAND Michel
P03	Petroleum residues dont hydrocarbures (35)	90 stations	MARCHAND Michel
P12	Bottom deposits	-	MARCHAND Michel

Summary of measurements

-Hydrology: temperature, salinity, oxygen.
-Pollution.
-Biology: phytoplankton, amino acid dosage, ATP, ADP, AMP, enzymes.
-Physiology, toxicology, trophic activities, monitoring, biomass.
-Geology: skip sampling.
-Geophysics: physical and chemical analysis of sediments.

Positionning system

Geodetic system : VALEUR INDEFINIE

Bibliography

References of Articles published in other Periodicals or Scientific Works acclaimed in the Field

Bergeron Jean-Pierre (1986). Approche systémique des potentialités de production secondaire pélagique: inférences de fluctuations interannuelles. Oceanologica Acta, 9(3), 291-303. Open Access version : https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00072/18315/

References of Technical Reports

Courtot Pierre, Morel Gilles (1979). Evolution dans l'eau de mer au voisinage du Nord-Finistère des hydrocarbures provenant de l'Amoco Cadiz. Rapport de fin de contrat 78/5738.

Marchand Michel, D'Ozouville Laurent (1979). Etude de la pollution par les hydrocarbures de l'"Amoco Cadiz" des sediments des baies de Morlaix et de Lannion. Etude CNEXO/NOAA.