VICOMED 1

Name: VICOMED 1
Start: 1986-09-16
End: 1986-10-13
Location: Mediterranean Sea

Type	Oceanographic cruise
Ship	Le Noroit
Ship owner	Ifremer
Dates	16/09/1986 - 13/10/1986
Chief scientist(s)	VERGNAUD-GRAZZINI Colette
	LABORATOIRE DE TECTONIQUE Tour 46, 2e etage 4, Place Jussieu Case 129 75252 PARIS CEDEX 05 philippe.huchon@upmc.fr (directeur) http://www.upmc.fr/fr/recherche/pole_3/pole_terre_vivante_et_environnement/institut_des_sciences_de_la_terre_de_paris.html
Objective	Characterise zero time in the Mediterranean in the period when the thermohaline structure is heterogeneous (late summer, early autumn). This cruise is part of a much broader programme aiming for a number of Mediterranean basins and key zones, to establish, with respect to the circulation there at present: An inventory of isotopic parameters in the water column; how these parameters are related to other hydrogeochemical ones; the impact of the hydrogeochemical parameters on sedimentation and the diversification of populations of organisms with carbonated tests.

Sea/Ocean

Mediterranean Sea

Ports

Port of departure : Toulon (France)

Port of return : Heraklion (Greece)

Project

EUROSEISMIC EUROPEAN SEISMIC METADATA AND INFORMATION CENTRE

Scientific Authority

LABORATOIRE DE TECTONIQUE

Tour 46, 2e etage

4, Place Jussieu

75252 PARIS CEDEX 05

philippe.huchon@upmc.fr (directeur)

http://www.upmc.fr/fr/recherche/pole_3/pole_terre_vivante_et_environnement/institut_des_sciences_de_la_terre_de_paris.html

Participating bodie(s)

INSU, IGBA, UNIVERSITE (CHERBOURG, BARCELONE, HAIFA), I.O (ATHENES) E.T.H (ZURICH)

Discipline(s)

PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY
BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY
MARINE GEOSCIENCES

Code	Label	Quantity	PI
B02	Phytoplankton pigments (eg chloroph Chlorophyll	-	VERGNAUD-GRAZZINI Colette
B08	Phytoplankton Vertical and horizontal lines	14 hauls	VERGNAUD-GRAZZINI Colette
B09	Zooplankton Vertical and horizontal lines	14 hauls	VERGNAUD-GRAZZINI Colette
B71	Particulate organic matter (inc POC Particulate organic carbon analysis	-	VERGNAUD-GRAZZINI Colette
G04	Core soft bottom Kullenberg and Usnel	14 cores	VERGNAUD-GRAZZINI Colette
G73	Single-beam echosounding 3.5 Hz EDO Profiles	-	VERGNAUD-GRAZZINI Colette
G75	Single channel seismic reflection 3.5 kHz sounder	-	VERGNAUD-GRAZZINI Colette
H09	Water bottle stations	-	VERGNAUD-GRAZZINI Colette
H10	CTD stations Guildline Bathysonde	17 stations	VERGNAUD-GRAZZINI Colette
H21	Oxygen	-	VERGNAUD-GRAZZINI Colette
H22	Phosphate	-	VERGNAUD-GRAZZINI Colette
H24	Nitrate	-	VERGNAUD-GRAZZINI Colette
H26	Silicate	-	VERGNAUD-GRAZZINI Colette
H28	pH	-	VERGNAUD-GRAZZINI Colette

Summary of measurements

-Stations with continuous logging (by Guildline CTD) of temperature, salinity, density and water samples taken for various chemical and biological measurements (pH, dissolved O2, chlorophyll, particulate carbon, coccoliths).
-Stations taking samples for particulate organic carbon analyses.
-Stations taking phytoplankton samples by vertical hauls and microplankton samples by horizontal hauls.
-Stations taking core samples (Küllenberg corer and Usnel box corer).
-Profiles with 3.5 kHz sub-bottom profiler while underway.
-Freezing of samples for later analysis of nutrients.

Location map

Positionning system

Geodetic system : VALEUR INDEFINIE

Data managed by SISMER

Bibliography

Publications

Incarbona Alessandro, Sprovieri Mario (2020). The PostGlacial Isotopic Record of Intermediate Water connects Mediterranean sapropels and Organic‐Rich Layers. Paleoceanography And Paleoclimatology, 35(10), e2020PA004009 (20p.). Publisher's official version : https://doi.org/10.1029/2020PA004009 , Open Access version : https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00648/75996/

Knappertsbusch Michael (1993). Syracosphaera noroiticus sp. nov., and S. marginaporata sp. nov., (Syracosphaeraceae, Prymnesiophyta), new coccolithophorids from the Mediterranean Sea and North Atlantic Ocean. Journal of Micropalaeontology, 12(1), 71-76. https://doi.org/10.1144/jm.12.1.71