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Albatross IV, 1965-1968

 Series

Scope and Content Note

The series contains logs with echo sounding, depth and position, sample, and gravity core data.

Dates

  • 1965-1968

Access

Open: materials are available for research.

Historical Note

The Albatross IV , built by the Southern Shipbuilding Corporation of Slidell, Louisiana, was designed specifically to conduct fisheries and oceanographic research. The vessel entered service in 1962 and spent much of its career conducting resource surveys assessing the health and population structure of finfish and scallops on the Northeast continental shelf, marine mammal surveys, and studies of plankton and larval fish abundance. The surveys provided the foundation for managing fishery resources and for ecological research, and contributed significantly to the NEFSC’s unique data library, including the world’s longest time series of standardized fishery population data.

Albatross IV left Woods Hole November 3, 2008 on its last cruise, the annual fall bottom trawl survey on the Northeast continental shelf. It returned to its home port in Woods Hole on November 14. After the decommissioning ceremony the ship will remain in Woods Hole a few days before heading for the NOAA's Atlantic fleet facility in Norfolk, Va.

[Taken from the Northeast Fisheries Science Center history of the NOAA Ship Albatross IV.]

Extent

4 logs

Language

From the Collection: English

From the Collection: English

Arrangement

Logs are organized by cruise number, and chronologically thereunder.

Repository Details

Part of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Data Library and Archives Repository

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