Acknowledgement 
All participants accomplished a big amount of work in a good temper and made the North 
Sea Summer Survey 2016 again a big success! Thank you very much to all of you! 
The help and professional good-humoured support of captain Antony Hobin and his crew is 
gratefully acknowledged. 
Holger Klein 
Aberdeen, August 26", 2016 
Appendix 1: List of samples 
"CTD-Pprofiles with rosette: 103 stations 
Secchi depth: 36 stations (daylight stations only) 
Salinity: 279 samples 
Stations for radioactivity: ‘87 stations 
Oxygen: “129 samples & 10fold determination 
pH-value: 129 samples & 10fold determination 
Chlorophyll: 112 samples 
Nutrients: 20 extra samplings for validation of the nutrient 
analysers. 
Run time nutrient auto analyser: 
Silicate: 7 days, Nitrate/Nitrite: 19 days, 
Phosphate: 19 days, pH: 19 days 
50 samples 22 
45 samples 
2 samples a 3 35-I-drums Caesium-137 and 
Strontium-90 (pure) 
49 samples ä 2 35-I-drums Strontium-90 (pure) 
51 samples ä 1-I-bottles Tritium (pure) 
1 sample a 3 35-I-drums Plutonium and Americium 
(pure) 
1 sample ä 600 | transuranics (pure) 
89 samples ä 150 | Caesium-137 (concentrated) 
10 samples ä 100 | KNIFC (concentrated) 
1 sediment sample ä 2 cans Samarium and 
transuranics 
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