AMT16

May 18, 2005 - June 28, 2005

Cape Town - UK

This was the fifth cruise in the series funded by a NERC Consortium Grant. The cruise was on board the RRS Discovery and sailed from Cape Town, South Africa to Falmouth, UK from 19 May to 29 June 2005.

The cruise aimed to compare the northern and southern hemisphere gyres following the 25 degree west meridian. The coastal upwelling off south west Africa was investigated prior to steaming into the mid-Atlantic to head north.

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Personnel

Name	Role	Institute
Bale, Tony	Principal Scientist	Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK
Chamberlain, Katie	Nutrients	Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK
Cooke, Isobel	Pigments, POC/N, lugols	Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK
Drapeau, David	Calcification, optics	Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Science, USA
Frickers, Trish	pCO₂, ammonia	Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK
Gist, Niki	Respiration and gross production	Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK
Hale, Michelle	Bacterial processes	Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Kaiser, Jan	Oxygen, argon, nitrogen, CO₂	Princeton University, USA
Koblizek, Michal	Aerobic anoxygenic photoheterotrophs	Instiute of Microbiology, Czech Republic
Lavender, Sam	Optics, FRRF, CDOM	University of Plymouth, UK
Mawji, Edward	Marine siderophores	University of Plymouth, UK
Pan, Xi	DOC, DON, DOP	National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK
Poulton, Alex	¹⁴C size fractionated photosynthesis	National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK
Raitsos, Dionysios	Data analysis	University of Plymouth, UK
Reynolds, Sarah	PON, DON	University of Liverpool, UK
Schattenhofer, Martha	Microbial community composition	Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany
Tarran, Glen	Flow cytometry	Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK
Ussher, Simon	Iron	University of Plymouth, UK