AMT6

May 13, 1998 - June 14, 1998

CapeTown - UK

AMT6 left Cape Town, South Africa on 14 May 1998 and arrived in Grimsby on 15 June 1998. The ship track from Cape Town to the equator followed the coast of South Africa, Namibia and Angola to study the Benguela upwelling. From the coast of southern Angola, the track passed through the Gulf of Guinea to join the standard AMT track at about 10 degrees N. The principal scientists was Jim Aiken from the Plymouth Marine Laboratory.

The cruise focused on functional relationships of bio-optical properties and phytoplankton productivity in upwelling and highly productive ecosystems.

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Personnel

AMT6 personnel

Name	Institute
Aiken, Jim	Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK
Barlow, Ray	Sea Fisheries Research Institute, South Africa
Bowie, Andy	University of Plymouth, UK
Brown, Jim	University of Miami, USA
Dempsey, Cyril	Satlantic Inc., Canada
Fernandez-Suarez, Emilio	Universidad de Vigo, Spain
Holligan, Patrick	Southampton Oceanography Centre, UK
Hooker, Stan	NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre, USA
Lucas, Mike	University of Cape Town, South Africa
Pilgrim, Derek	University of Plymouth, UK
Rees, Andy	Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK
Robinson, Carol	Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK
Serrett, Pablo	Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK
Suggett, David	Southampton Oceanography Centre, UK
Teira, Eva	Universidad de Vigo, Spain
Tilstone, Gavin	CSIC, Spain
Woodd-Walker, Rachel	Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK
Woodward, Malcolm	Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK