Title Marion Island Relief Voyage on the SA Agulhas II Voyage 057, May 2023
Authors

Marcel van den Berg
Oceans and Coastal Research, Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries (DFFE), South Africa, email: mvdberg@dffe.gov.za

Publisher Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (2023)
Contributors

Contact Person: Marcel van den Berg
Oceans and Coastal Research, Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE), email: mvandenberg.dea@gmail.com

Abstract The 2023 Marion Relief Voyage 057 offered the 11th opportunity to conduct multi-disciplinary, ship-based oceanographic research on board the SA Agulhas II en route to, from, and around, the sub-Antarctic Prince Edward Islands (PEIs). The ship-based research was conducted as a joint multi-institutional, multidisciplinary effort with scientists, research technicians, interns and students from the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment: Oceans & Coasts Research (DFFE-OCR), Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment: Specialist Monitoring Services (DFFE-SMS), Bayworld Centre for Research and Education (BCRE), the University of Cape Town (UCT) and the University of Pretoria (UP), all collaborating to achieve a variety of research and monitoring project objectives. For the 2023 Relief voyage 19 scientists; students; technicians and interns participated on the voyage from the various institutes and universities.
Data
Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Temporal extent 12 Apr 2023 – 18 May 2023
Geographic extent

North: -33.0
South: -48.0
West: 17.0
East: 40.0

Keywords cruise report, SA Agulhas II, SA Agulhas II 057, sailing orders
Related resources
  • Digital objects included in this collection:
    • Raw Expendable Bathythermograph (XBT) casts collected during the Marion Island Relief Voyage on the SA Agulhas II Voyage 057, May 2023 (10.15493/DEA.MIMS.11222023)
    • Processed Expendable Bathythermograph (XBT) casts collected during the Marion Island Relief Voyage on the SA Agulhas II Voyage 057, May 2023 (10.15493/DEA.MIMS.11462023)
    • Processed underway Thermosalinograph (TSG) observations from the Marion Island Relief Voyage on SA Agulhas II Voyage 057, April 2023 (10.15493/DEA.MIMS.13562023)
    • Raw underway Thermosalinograph (TSG) observations from the Marion Island Relief Voyage on SA Agulhas II Voyage 057, April 2023 (10.15493/DEA.MIMS.13572023)