Title Raw SDS data from the Marion Island Relief Voyage on the SA Agulhas II Voyage 015, April 2015
Project Marion Island Relief Voyage
Authors

Hans Verheye
Oceans and Coastal Research, Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) Specialist Scientist 2nd Floor, Foretrust Building, 1 Martin Hammerschlag Way, Cape Town, South Africa

Publisher Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (2022)
Contributors

Contact Person: Tarron Lamont
Oceans and Coastal Research, Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) Marine Scientist 2nd Floor, Foretrust Building, 1 Martin Hammerschlag Way, Cape Town, South Africa, tarron.lamont@gmail.com

Contact Person: Jenny Huggett
Oceans and Coastal Research, Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) Marine Scientist 2nd Floor, Foretrust Building, 1 Martin Hammerschlag Way, Cape Town, South Africa, Jhuggett@environment.gov.za

Abstract This is raw Scientific Data System (SDS) data from the Marion Island Relief Voyage on the SA Agulhas II Voyage 015 from 9 April to 15 May, 2015. The 2015 Marion Relief Voyage on board South Africa’s polar research and supply vessel MV SA Agulhas II offered yet another opportunity to conduct multi-disciplinary ship-based oceanographic research focusing on links and interactions between air and sea, ocean physics, chemistry, biogeochemistry and biology, including microbial, planktic and benthic communities. The overall aim was to continue contributing to the establishment of an oceanographic observation and monitoring system directed by South African research institutions in support of South Africa’s needs – and where possible, the global requirements of the Global Oceans Observing System (GOOS), the Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS), the Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR), the Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels (ACAP), etc.With the declaration in April 2013 of the Prince Edward Islands (PEIs) as South Africa’s first offshore Marine Protected Area (MPA), the outcomes of this cruise will further contribute toward an integrated view and a better understanding of the functioning of the combined island/marine PEI ecosystem.
Methods Raw data in their original format, as received from the instrument and unprocessed.
Data
Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Temporal extent 09 Apr 2015 – 15 May 2015
Geographic extent

South Indian Ocean, Prince Edward Islands Monitoring, Marion Island

North: -34.998
South: -47.5
West: 18.5
East: 38.15

Keywords INDIAN OCEAN, SA Agulhas II, SA Agulhas II 015, Scientific Data System, SDS
Related resources
  • This digital object is part of Marion Island Relief Voyage on the SA Agulhas II Voyage 015, April 2015 (10.15493/dea.mims.26052199)