20 September 2016 - 04 November 2016
Immingham, UK - Falkland Islands
AMT26 set sail from Immingham on 20th September 2016 aboard the British Antarctic Survey vessel the RRS James Clark Ross and arrived in Stanley, Falkland Islands on 4th November 2016.
This years cruise had the addition of funding from the European Space Agency for the AMT4SentinelFRM project. This will provide a unique opportunity to obtain high quality fiducial reference measurements for the validation of Sentinel products in a wide range of Atlantic locations. You can read more about life on board the ship from Madeline Steer, who is working with marine plastics. Click here to view her blog posts on the Plymouth Marine Laboratory Facebook page.
Download the full cruise report (7MB)
Name
Institution
Andy Rees (PI)
Plymouth Marine Laboratory
James Ayliffe
British Oceanographic Data Centre
Bob Brewin
Kerri Coombes
Plymouth Marine Laboratory/University of Plymouth
Denise Cummings
Giorgio Dall'Olmo
Carolyn Harris
Jason Hopkins
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
Francesco Nencioli
Emanuele Organelli
Marie Curie fellow
Katsia Pabortsava
National Oceanography Centre, Southampton
Rafaell Rasse
Royal Society fellow
Madeline Steer
Glen Tarran
Werenfrid Wimmer
University of Southampton
Port Stanley, Falkland Islands - Southampton, UK
Southampton, UK - Punta Arenas, Chile
Harwich, Essex - Falklands
Hosted at Plymouth Marine Laboratory, funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council.