Title St Helena Bay Monitoring Line (SHBML) on the Algoa Voyage 195, March 2013
Authors

Keshnee Pillay
Oceans and Coastal Research, Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE)

Marco Worship
Oceans and Coastal Research, Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE)

Publisher Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (2017)
Contributors

Contact Person: Keshnee Pillay
Oceans and Coastal Research, Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE), email: KePillay@dffe.gov.za

Project Leader: Keshnee Pillay
Oceans and Coastal Research, Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE)

Project Leader: Marco Worship
Oceans and Coastal Research, Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE)

Abstract The St Helena Bay Monitoring Line, which now falls under the Integrated Ecosystem Programme: Southern Benguela, was conducted on the Algoa Voyage 195, 4 to 8 March, 2013. The St Helena Bay Monitoring Line was initiated as a BENEFIT-driven project on "shipboard monitoring" which linked with similar lines run in Namibia and Angola. The aims are to obtain seasonal and interannual information on the hydrology and productivity of the area. Data on harmful algal blooms, low oxygen water and intrusions of Agulhas Bank water along the west coast will also be collected. A long-term, multi-decadel time-series (from 1951 onward) of information already exists for this important region and has continued in the form of the IEP:SB to detect long-term changes in the hydrology and the plankton, which are important for the detection of regime shifts.
Data
Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Temporal extent 04 Mar 2013 – 08 Mar 2013
Geographic extent

North: -32.2197
South: -34.9993
West: 15.0068
East: 18.5213

Keywords Agulhas Bank, algal blooms, Algoa, Algoa 195, cruise report, hydrology, low oxygen water, plankton, sailing orders