Deployment of Lander, core sampling, hydrographic observation off Sanriku KS-15-15

Fiscal Year

2015

Title

Deployment of Lander, core sampling, hydrographic observation off Sanriku KS-15-15

Project and Theme

Project 3. Research on factors controlling open ocean benthopelagic ecosystem dynamics
Representative Organization: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Theme2. Marine environmental changes monitoring
Representative personShuichi Watanabe
OrganizationJapan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
DepartmentEastern Japan Marine Ecosystems Dynamics Project team

Research Information

Period and Interval
2015/11/01 - 2015/11/11
Research Area
Off the coast of Sanriku
Category
Research Cruise
Overview
This cruise of Shinsei maru is conducted under the TEAMS project, namely Tohoku Ecosystem Array of Marine Sciences. Detailed investigation is mooring deployment of the lander, core samplings by multiple coring and piston coring, and hydrographic observation.

Investigation Item and Data Acquisition

Investigation ItemData Acquisition
LanderWater temperature, salinity, pressure, turbidity, dissolved oxygen, current velocity, current direction, picture, movie
Core samplingMultiple coring (8 sites)
Hydrographic observationCTD, FRRF (Chl.a, PAR), dissolved inorganic carbon, total alkalinity, nutrients, salinity, 18O-H2O, Methane, dissolved organic carbon, chl.a

Reference

Person in charge of Investigation

Representative personShuichi Watanabe
OrganizationJapan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
DepartmentMutsu Institute for Oceanography (MIO), Research Institute for Global Change (RIGC)

Contact person about data & samples

Representative personMasahide Wakita
OrganizationJapan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
DepartmentAnalyses of Changes in East Japan Marine Ecosystems Research and Development Group (JAM-TEAMS), Marine Biodiversity and Environmental Assessment Research Center (BioEnv)

Keywords

Fiscal Year2015
OrganizationJapan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
CategoryResearch Cruise
Research AreaNorth Sanriku
South Sanriku
DisciplineOcean physics -> Water temperature
Ocean physics -> Salinity
Ocean physics -> Ocean current / Tidal current (Current direction/Current speed)
Ocean physics -> Transparency / Turbidity
Ocean chemistry -> Salinity
Ocean chemistry -> Dissolved oxygen
Ocean chemistry -> Nutrients
Ocean chemistry -> Organic matter
Ocean chemistry -> Methane
Ocean chemistry -> Total carbonic acid
Ocean chemistry -> Alkalinity
Ocean environment -> Nutrients
Ocean environment -> Plant pigments
Ocean environment -> Organic carbon
Ocean environment -> Organic nitrogen
Ocean environment -> Alkalinity