EFLUBIO-1 Cruise, RV García del Cid

EFLUBIO-1 Cruise (29GD20031111) carried out on the Research Vessel García del Cid in 2003The purpose of the Eflubio project is to identify, quantify and relate the physical-chemical conditions, the structures of the planktonic communities and the biogeochemical flows in the area of influence of the Nor-Balearic front (and the two water masses it delimits) during the periods of spring bloom and summer stratification.This campaign has two objectives, one such as the placement of the anchored sediment trap(The trap was in the Gulf of León at 41.80 N 5.20 E, at about 2300 m depth) and another scientific one that is to study the planktonic communities and associated biochemical flows during the stratification and oligotrophic situation in the northwestern Mediterranean.Temperature, salinity and oxygen parameters will be measured.Inorganic and organic nutrients, biochemical composition (proteins and nucleic acids of plankton), bacteria, ciliates and flagellates, phytoplankton, chlorophyll, pigments, micro and mesozooplankton, bacterial production, primary production, sedimentation of particulate matter, phytoplankton sedimentation, pigment sedimentatio