Infrastructure
(short name)
CEFAS- FerryBox
(CEFAS- FerryBox)
Installation
(short name)
RV Cefas Endeavour
(RV Cefas Endeavour)
Location
UK waters
Coordinates/Routes
Bottom depth
Legal name of organisation
Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science
Country
United Kingdom
Contact
Ferrybox system on RV Cefas Endeavour
RV Cefas Endeavour Specification Sheet June 2020 (3.9 MiB)
Location: Operates in UK waters
throughout the year.
System for autonomous, cost-efficient and continuous collection of sea surface oceanographic HF, high
resolution data:S, T, fluorescence, turbidity, flow cytometry. Services currently offered: Data has been used within the
eutrophication monitoring programme and as an essential component of fisheries surveys to study environmental drivers
of small pelagic fishes (eggs, larvae and adults) with specific focus on S, T and Chl-a maps.
The FerryBox system on RV Cefas Endeavour is used for autonomous and continuous collection of the sea surface oceanographic data. Core variables include sea surface salinity and temperature, turbidity, chlorophyll fluorescence, oxygen, nutrients and meteorological parameters. A flow cytometer could be connected if requested.
Cefas Ferrybox
|
Instrument |
Parameters |
Depth (m) |
Sampling frequency |
Data availability |
|
GPS |
Latitude, longitude, course, speed, pitch, roll |
N/A |
1 minute |
Data telemetry every 10 minutes (basic QC) Full QC data available after cruise |
|
PT100 |
Sea surface temperature |
-4 |
1 minute |
Data telemetry every 10 minutes (basic QC) Full QC data available after cruise |
|
Seabird CT |
Conductivity, temperature, sound velocity, salinity |
-4 |
1 minute |
Data telemetry every 10 minutes (basic QC) Full QC data available after cruise |
|
Aanderaa optode |
Oxygen concentration Oxygen percent saturation temperature |
-4 |
1 minute |
Data telemetry every 10 minutes (basic QC) Full QC data available after cruise |
|
Seapoint SCF |
Chlorophyll fluorescence, calibrated to chlorophyll in mg l-1 after recovery |
-4 |
1 minute |
Data telemetry every 10 minutes (basic QC) Full QC data available after cruise |
|
Seapoint OBS |
Turbidity (FTU), calibrated to suspended particulate matter in mg l-1 after recovery |
-4 |
1 minute |
Data telemetry every 10 minutes (basic QC) Full QC data available after cruise |
|
Algal Online Analyser |
Green algae, blue algae, diatoms, cryptophyta, CDOM, photosynthetic yield |
-4 |
3 minutes |
Data telemetry every 10 minutes (basic QC) Full QC data available after cruise |
|
Licor PAR |
In air- photosynthetically active radiation |
+ 15m |
1 minute |
Data telemetry every 10 minutes (basic QC) Full QC data available after cruise |
|
Gill met pack |
Wind direction, wind speed, pressure, relative humidity, aire temperature, |
+ 15m |
1 minute |
Data telemetry every 10 minutes (basic QC) Full QC data available after cruise |
Modality of access under this
proposal: MoA2.
UA: day Modality used to declare access costs:TA-UC
Support offered Accessto the Ferrybox data, Ferrybox infrastructure to deploy new sensors/ instruments and the associated Ferrybox data.
Automated water sampler offered for collecting additional underway samples.Technical assistance with integration of
additional sensors.
