MTPII-MATER/HFF-PELAGOS MAR97

Type Oceanographic cruise
Set This cruise is part of the set MTPII-MATER
Ship L'Europe
Ship owner Ifremer
Dates 15/03/1997 - 03/05/1997
Chief scientist(s) VAN WAMBEKE France

INSTITUT MÉDITERRANÉEN D'OCÉANOLOGIE - UMR 7294 UMR IRD 235 - MARSEILLE

163 avenue de Luminy

Bâtiment Méditerranée

13288 Marseille Cedex 9

+33(0)4 86 09 05 00

https://www.mio.osupytheas.fr/fr/linstitut-mediterraneen-doceanologie/presentation-2/

DOI 10.17600/97060080
Objective Appraising the effects of biological variability in the surface layers on deep particulate fluxes on short scales of time (a few days) and space: using a 3D system (9 station array) on a box of 10 x 20 nautical miles on the continental slope in the Gulf of Lion, off Marseilles. The related projects are PNOC and MATER (WP2, High Frequency Flux Experiment). The survey covers 6 missions: 15-18 March from La Seyne to Marseille aboard RV L'Europe, 22-26 March from Marseille to Marseille aboard RV L'Europe, 3-8 April from Port-Vendres to Marseille aboard RV L'Europe, 13-17 April from Marseille to La Seyne aboard RV L'Europe, 21-24 April from La Seyne to La Seyne aboard RV TETHYS II, 1st-3 May from Marseille to Marseille aboard RV GEORGES PETIT.

Data managed by SISMER

Bibliography

Publications

Gremare A, Medernach L, Debovee F, Amouroux Jm, Charles F, Dinet A, Vetion G, Albert P, Colomines Jc (2003). Relationship between sedimentary organic matter and benthic fauna within the Gulf of Lion: synthesis on the identification of new biochemical descriptors of sedimentary organic nutritional value. Oceanologica Acta, 26(4), 391-406. Publisher's official version : https://doi.org/10.1016/S0399-1784(03)00018-5 , Open Access version : https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00321/43264/