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CTD and plankton net sampling oceanographic survey This cruise seeks to provide Irish data to the ICES Working Group on Oceanic Hydrography (WGOH). The WGOH produces the annual ICES Report on Ocean Climate (IROC) which summarises oceanic variability from year to year in the...
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The Marine Institute (MI) conducts annual groundfish surveys to determine the distribution and abundance of commercial fish around Ireland. The Irish Groundfish Survey (IGFS) forms part of the International Bottom Trawl Survey (IBTS) programme, an international survey...
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CE16007 Transatlantic Added Value Survey (Galway to Saint John's, Newfoundland)Marine InstituteEnvironmentThis multidisciplinary 14 day transatlantic survey took place in Aptil 2017 on board the Marine Institute's R.V. Celtic Explorer. This research cruise is a survey that has been conducted annually since 2011 along a similar cruise track, with each year building on the body...
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CE0606 Celtic Explorer Blue Whiting (Micromesistius poutassou) Acoustic Survey North East Atlanti...Marine InstituteEnvironmentAn acoustic survey targeting blue whiting (Micromesistius poutassou) spawning and post spawning aggregations in the north east Atlantic in 2006. Spawning takes place from January through to April along the shelf edge from the southern Porcupine Bank area northwards to the...
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EnvironmentAn acoustic survey targeting blue whiting (Micromesistius poutassou) spawning and post spawning aggregations in the north east Atlantic in 2005. Spawning takes place from January through to April along the shelf edge from the southern Porcupine Bank area northwards to the...
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CE0406 National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG) Ryan Institute Oceanographic Survey, North Ea...Marine InstituteEnvironmentA National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG) led cruise to the Porcupine Bank in the North East Atlantic Ocean with a multi-disciplinary objective. The cruise took place in October 2004. Standard oceanographic research.
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CE0405 Celtic Explorer Irish National Seabed Survey (INSS) Seabed Mapping Survey 2004Marine InstituteEnvironmentIreland's territorial seabed reaches more than 600 miles out into the Atlantic Ocean to waters of more than 4,500 metres in depth. The objective of the Seabed Survey is to collect detailed bathymetry (water depth) data and gain knowledge of the nature of the seabed and...
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EnvironmentAn acoustic survey targeting blue whiting (Micromesistius poutassou) spawning and post spawning aggregations in the north east Atlantic in 2004. This survey took place in March/April on board the RV Celtic Explorer. The purpose of this cruise was to survey blue whiting...
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EnvironmentA three week survey conducted by the Marine Institute to carry out a herring acoustic survey in the North East Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Ireland. The aim of an acoustic survey is to determine the relative abundance of the target species. This information is then used...
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As part of a large Higher Education Authority (HEA) funded PTRLI cycle 3 marine program carried out at the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG), this cruise was part of a multi-disciplinary survey of the deep waters west and north of Porcupine Bank in the North East...
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The first deployment of a wave buoy at Brandon Bay (Lat:52.282333 Long:-10.094833) December 2020. On 13th of March, the wave buoy was found washed ashore with the mooring broken at the clump weight. The buoy was recovered for a re-deployment with a reconfigured mooring. To...
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The 2018 Irish Anglerfish and Megrim Survey (IAMS) took place from 20th February to 19th March (area 7bcjk) and from 10-21st April 2018 (area 6a) on the Marine Institute's RV Celtic Explorer to provide abundance indices for anglerfish and megrim and to provide maturity...
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This is second deployment of the Galway Bay Observatory. The SmartBay Observatory in Galway Bay is an underwater observatory which uses cameras, probes and sensors to permit continuous and remote live underwater monitoring. It was installed in 2015 on the seafloor 1.5km off...
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The SmartBay Observatory in Galway Bay is an underwater observatory which uses cameras, probes and sensors to permit continuous and remote live underwater monitoring. It was installed in 2015 on the seafloor 1.5km off the coast of Spiddal, Co. Galway, Ireland at a depth of...
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Led by University College Cork (UCC), this 2 day training survey was conducted in November 2016 on board the R.V. Celtic Voyager in Cork Harbour. The survey was carried out to provide training to MSc Marine Biology students in oceanographic and biological sampling techniques....
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Led by the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG), this training survey took place on board the Marine Institute's R.V. Celtic Voyager in October 2016 in Galway Bay. The aim of the survey was to train students and gain practical skills and experience in...
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This shallow sub-seabed seismic stratigraphic survey, led by University College Cork (UCC), on board the Marine Institute's R.V. Celtic Voyager, was to be conducted in the Celtic Sea. However, the survey was aborted and objectives not completed. Objective 1: Irish Sea and...
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EnvironmentCTD, plankton net and deployment of neuston net biogeochemical survey in the North Atlantic Ocean. A Biogeochemical sampling programme which aims to quantify and qualify a comprehensive range of water column characteristics including optical, chemical and biological properties...
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CV16034 GATEWAYS III Survey | Internal structure of the ridges of the Porcupine SaddleMarine InstituteEnvironmentThis survey, led by Maynooth University in associated with the Geological Survey Ireland, was an investigation of submerged ridges off the west coast of Ireland. Linked previously with ice movement, these ridges can help reveal information on the dynamics of the British...
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CV16031 World War I shipwrecks in the Irish Sea: commemoration, visualization - part II SurveyMarine InstituteEnvironmentMultibeam and pinger survey of shipwrecks in the North Atlantic Ocean. The overall scientific goal of this application is to acquire very high-resolution data over World War I (WWI) wrecks in the Irish Sea which will be used for archaeological, biological and physical...
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