FASTNEt Project Dye Experiment (VIDEO)

The FASTNEt consortium is a four-year physical science research programme that started on October 1st 2011.

FASTNEt’s main aim is to construct a new paradigm of Ocean/Shelf exchange using novel observations and model techniques to resolve the key seasonal, interannual and regional variation absent from existing knowledge.

Standard oceanographic moorings will be complemented with 60 satellite tracked drifters a fleet of eight Gliders patrolling the shelf break from west of the Scilly Isles to north Scotland.

As part of the FASTNEt project a research cruise to the Marin Shelf off the west coast of Scotland was undertaken in July of 2013.

NOC scientist Dr Jo Hopkins was part of the cruise and ran some dye experiments to discover the movement of currents across the shelf edge.

In the video Jo describes the experiment and what it is trying to acheive and talks about life on board a science research cruise.

Press Release, October 17, 2013