RSS Charles Darwin Cruise 158, 15-28 Jun 2004, Vigo – Fairlie. Ocean biogeochemistry

Cruise CD158 to the Porcupine Abyssal Plain (PAP) maintained the long term observatory site on the Porcupine Abyssal Plain (PAP) at 49N 16.5W and continued a series of multidisciplinary occuaptions of the site. There were two objectives, A: to recover and redeploy various moorings and landers some of which were part of the EU funded ANIMATE project, and B: to measure particulate export from the surface layer using a variety of complementary approaches and to characterise the site from a biological and chemical perspective in order to interpret the export data. These all contribute to the NERC funded BICEP project.