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Deployment: MD229

Deployment: 
MD229
Chief Scientist: 
Catherine Jeandel (Laboratoire d’Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales, LEGOS)
Synonyms: 
GS02
SWINGS
French GEOTRACES
Platform Type:
 vessel
Start Date: 
2021-01-11
End Date: 
2021-03-08
Location: 
Indian sector of the Southern Ocean
Description

French GEOTRACES section GS02 SWINGS Cruise on R/V Marion-Dufresne (cruise ID MD229). For more information, see the following: https://swings.geotraces.org/en/homepage-english/

The French GEOTRACES SWINGS GS02 cruise started from La Réunion island (France) on January 13th, 2021 and ended at the same place on March 8th, 2021. During 54 days, many stations have been sampled with various pieces of equipment on board the Marion Dufresne II research vessel in order to elucidate trace element sources, transformations, and sinks in key areas of the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean contributing to the global effort of the GEOTRACES programme.