Vessel
KAIMEI
Cruise number
KM20-09
Area
Sagami Bay, Suruga Bay
Objective
Understanding the current situations of marine pollutants, especially plastics and assessing their impact on marine ecosystems ; Evaluation test for deterioration of biodegradable plastics under deep-sea environment ; Establishment of analysis method related to "Development of automatic microplastic analysis using hyperspectral camera" ; Field and laboratory studies on plastic deterioration under deep-sea environment ; Elucidation of the transportation process of microplastics in marine environment ; Outreach on marine plastics
Chief scientists
Yoshihiro Fujiwara
Operation start
2020-11-14
Operation end
2020-11-21
DOI
10.17596/0002558
DOI URL
Title
R/V Kaimei /ROV KM-ROV Cruise Report KM20-09
Data name
KM20-09_all
Language
English
Series name
Cruise reports
Total pages
78
Publisher
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology