Marion Island Relief Voyage on the SA Agulhas II Voyage 030, April 2018 ...

• 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; CTD; Water Temperature; Conductivity; Salinity; Density; Potential Density; Potential Temperature; SA Agulhas II; 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 030; sailing orders; cruise report; SDG Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development; SDG 14.2.1 Number of countries using ecosystem-based approaches to managing marine areas; Antarctic; Antarc*; Prince Edward Islands
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.15493/dea.mims.26052267; https://api.odp.saeon.ac.za/catalog/MIMS/go/10.15493/dea.mims.26052267

The Marion Island Relief Voyage was conducted on the SA Agulhas II Voyage 030 from 13 April to 28 April 2018. The 2018 Marion Relief Voyage 030 offered the 6th opportunity to conduct multi-disciplinary, shipbased marine research focusing on links and interactions between air and sea, ocean physics, chemistry, biogeochemistry and biology, including microbial and planktic communities on board South Africa’s polar research and supply vessel MV SA Agulhas II en route to, and around, the sub-Antarctic Prince Edward archipelago. The overall aim was to continue contributing to an oceanographic observation and monitoring system directed by South African research institutions in support of South Africa’s needs – and where possible, in support of global requirements of inter alia the Global Oceans Observing System (GOOS), the Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS), the Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR), and the Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels (ACAP). ...