Marion Island Relief Voyage on the SA Agulhas II Voyage 042, April 2020 ...

• Main Author: Marcel van den Berg
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment 2020
• Subjects: marion island relief voyage; southern ocean; prince edward islands monitoring; marion island; prince edward island; physical oceanography; pei; global oceans observing system; goos; southern ocean observing system; soos; convention for the conservation of antarctic marine living resources; ccamlr; agreement on the conservation of albatrosses and petrels; acap; marine protected area; mpa; SA Agulhas II; voyage 042; AGU042; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; Antarc*; Marion Island; Prince Edward Islands; Prince Edward Island
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.15493/dea.mims.26052160; https://api.odp.saeon.ac.za/catalog/SAEON/go/10.15493/dea.mims.26052160

The 2020 Marion Relief Voyage 042 on SA Agulhas II offered the 8th opportunity to conduct multi-disciplinary, ship-based oceanographic research on board the SA Agulhas II en route to, and around, the sub Antarctic Prince Edward Islands. Due to the world wide Covid-19 pandemic and the subsequent measures implemented by the South African government to contain the spread of the Covid-19 virus in South Africa, the main research objectives (land-based and ship-based) normally associated with the Marion Relief voyage (as submitted through SANAP3 applications) were cancelled. This cruise was comprised mainly of underway sampling. ...