Marion Island Relief Voyage on the SA Agulhas II Voyage 007, April 2013 ...

• Main Author: Hans Verheye
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment 2022
• Subjects: Southern Ocean; Prince Edward Islands Monitoring; Marion Island; Physical Oceanography; Marine Protected Area; ADCP; CTD; LOPC; OpenCPN; Bio; SDS; SA Agulhas II; SA Agulhas 007; sailing orders; cruise report; Prince Edward Islands
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.15493/dea.mims.26052194; https://api.odp.saeon.ac.za/catalog/SAEON/go/10.15493/dea.mims.26052194

The Marion Island Relief Voyage was conducted on the SA Agulhas II Voyage 007, 10 April to 16 May 2013.The 2013 Marion Relief Voyage 007 on board South Africa’s new polar research and supply vessel, the SA Agulhas II, afforded yet another opportunity to conduct multi-institutional (DEA, DAFF, UCT, SAEON, Rhodes Univ.) and multi-disciplinary ship-based oceanographic research that focused on links and interactions between air and sea, ocean physics, biogeochemistry, plankton and benthic communities and island-based top predators. The overall aim is to establish an oceanographic observation and monitoring system directed by South African research institutions in support of South Africa’s needs – and where possible, the global requirements of the Southern Ocean Observation System (SOOS), CCAMLR, ACAP, etc., by documenting ship-board observations in the oceanic environment around the Prince Edward Islands in a holistic manner, from the sea floor, through water column and food-web dynamics, to air-sea interactions ...