ECOFER 1

Name: ECOFER 1
Start: 1989-06-19
End: 1989-07-17
Location: Bay of Biscay

Type	Oceanographic cruise
Set	This cruise is part of the set ECOFER
Ship	Le Noroit
Ship owner	Ifremer
Dates	19/06/1989 - 17/07/1989
Chief scientist(s)	DINET Alain
	OBSERVATOIRE OCEANOLOGIQUE DE BANYULS (OSU-OOB) Laboratoire Arago BP 44 66650 BANYULS-SUR-MER +33 4 68 88 73 15 accueil@obs-banyuls.fr https://www.obs-banyuls.fr/index.php/fr/
DOI	10.17600/89001411
Objective	Study of particulate fluxes in Cap-Ferret canyon. Locating geomorphological framework. Physical-chemical analysis of water masses and studying the benthic response to advective phenomenon.

Sea/Ocean

Bay of Biscay

(Cap-Ferret)

Project

EUROSEISMIC EUROPEAN SEISMIC METADATA AND INFORMATION CENTRE

Scientific Authority

OBSERVATOIRE OCEANOLOGIQUE DE BANYULS (OSU-OOB)

Laboratoire Arago

BP 44

66650 BANYULS-SUR-MER

+33 4 68 88 73 15

accueil@obs-banyuls.fr

https://www.obs-banyuls.fr/index.php/fr/

Participating bodie(s)

INSU

Discipline(s)

BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY
MARINE GEOSCIENCES
FISHERIES
PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY
TECHNOLOGY

Code	Label	Quantity	PI
B18	Zoobenthos Bottom Tracks at 3000 m	-	DINET Alain
B73	Sediment traps Particle traps	-	DINET Alain
G04	Core soft bottom Large section coring (40) + 12 Kullenberg	52 cores	DINET Alain
G75	Single channel seismic reflection 3.5 kHz sediment sounder	39 profiles	DINET Alain
G90	Other geosciences meas. USNEL/INSU coring test - 3.5 khz sounder (39)	-	DINET Alain
H10	CTD stations CTD - Nephelometry	48 stations	DINET Alain
H17	Optics (eg underwater light levels) Nephelometry	48 stations	DINET Alain

Summary of measurements

-48 CTD / nephelometric hydrology profiles.
-40 large-section core samples.
-12 Küllenberg cores.
-39 3.5 kHz bathymetric profiles.
-Mooring of particle traps.
-First deployment of double shovel USNEL/INSU corer.
-Deep hauls (3,000 m) with Roscoff suprabenthic sled.

Location map

Positionning system

Geodetic system : WORLD GEODETIC SYSTEM 1972 = WGS72

Positioning system : Sat. Transit ? + GPS ? WGS 72 ?

Data managed by SISMER

Bibliography

Publications

Corbera Jordi, Sorbe Jean Claude (2020). Bathyal cumacean assemblages from the southern margin of the Cap Ferret Canyon (SE Bay of Biscay). Scientia Marina, 84(2), 167-179. Publisher's official version : https://doi.org/10.3989/scimar.05031.07A , Open Access version : https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00629/74124/

Kavanagh Fiona A., Frutos Inmaculada, Sorbe Jean Claude (2015). Ischnomesus harrietae sp nov., a new benthic asellote (Crustacea: Isopoda: Ischnomesidae) from bathyal bottoms of the southern Bay of Biscay. Zootaxa, 3911(2), 201-217. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3911.2.3

Sorbe Jean Claude, Elizalde Marta (2014). Temporal changes in the structure of a slope suprabenthic community from the Bay of Biscay (NE Atlantic Ocean). Deep-sea Research Part Ii-topical Studies In Oceanography, 106, 179-191. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2013.09.041

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

Macpherson E, Segonzac Michel (2005). Species of the genus Munidopsis (Crustacea, Decapoda, Galatheidae) from the deep Atlantic Ocean, including cold-seep and hydrothermal vent areas. Zootaxa, 1095(0), 3-60.

Thesis using campaign data

Assassi Charefeddine (2015). Variabilité interannuelle et analyse de la turbulence géostrophique dans le golfe de Gascogne à partir de simulations. PhD Thesis, Université Européenne de Bretagne.