CRUISE SUMMARY
The 87th cruise of ORV Sagar Kanya was multidisciplinary. This was the first full - fledged cruise under the JGOFS - INDIA programme. The ship sailed from Mormugao on 11.9.93 and proceeded to 17^oN. 3 diurnal observations at 17^o, 19^o and 21^oN along 66^oE were conducted. Apart from this, CTD stations were taken at every 1^o throughout the cruise track. Biological and chamical sampling was conducted at some of these stations also.

Altogether 20 stations were worked out. Observations were made on primary production, zooplankton, bacteria, microplankton, grazing, nutrients, oxygen, pH, nitrous oxide, total carbon dioxide etc. from CTD.

PARTICIPANTS

Scientific Component

M.Madhupratap             Chief Scientist NIO, Goa
V.P. Devassy              NIO, Goa
P.M.A. Bhattathiri        NIO, Goa
C.T. Achutankutty         NIO, Goa
S.R.S. Nair               NIO, Goa
N. Ramaih                 NIO, Goa
S. Raghukumar             NIO, Goa
A. Rajendran              NIO, Goa
M. Dileep Kumar           NIO, Goa
M.D. George               NIO, Goa
Amal Jaykumar             NIO, Goa
S.N. de Souza             NIO, Goa
H.S. Dalvi                NIO, Goa
S. Prasanna Kumar         NIO, Goa
P.M. Muralidharan         NIO, Goa
M.P. Harikrishnan         NIO, Goa
V. Subramanium            NIO, Goa
A.A. Almeida              NIO, Goa

P.N. Aravindakshan        NIO, Regional Center Cochin
Shyam Lal                 PRL, Ahmedabad
Tadashi Yoshinari         USA