Survey 2 - Pelagic Habitats Characterization of the Great Meteor Seamounts
partida: 2015-09-03 
chegada: 2015-09-25
equipa
Cientista Responsável/Chief Scientist: Miguel Santos (IMAR) Restante equipa técnico-científica/Remaining scientific team: Miguel Caetano, Ana Moreno, João Pastor (IPMA Catharina Pieper, Teresa Amaro, Miriam Verges (IMAR) Rui Pedro Vieira (CCMAR) Mafalda Baptista (CIIMAR) Joana Sobreira (ESCS)
rota
Ponta Delgada, Atlantis, Irving, Tyro, Ponta Delgada
Descrição
The cruise 02030915 took place on board the R/V Noruega, at the service of IPMA, between 3 and 5 September 2015. The full cruise report is available here.
The cruise objectives were:
- characterization of pelagic and benthic ecosystems of the Great Meteor complex, in particular the seamounts Atlantis, Irving and Tyro.
- collection of acoustic information for pelagic fish schools detection and bathymetry analysis;
- collection of information on human activities was collected to assess anthropogenic pressures in these seamounts.
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