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Posted: 31 August 2011
Up in the Artic, at this time of the year, there are still 24 hours of light. It is such a weird sensation arriving to your cabin at 4 am (after some hours looking at seismic lines, maps of the... |
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Posted: 31 August 2011
Cruise JR269A, west of Svalbard: Understanding gas escape from the ocean floor
Methane hydrate is formed from methane and water at high pressures and low temperatures, both of which are found at... |
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Posted: 30 August 2011
Ahoy, everyone! A couple of days ago, we finally left the Porcupine Abyssal Plain after a very successful sampling regime of megacoring, trawling, and the deployment of various other instruments... |
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Posted: 26 August 2011
Ambient noise in North European seas: monitoring, impact, management (3–5 October 2011, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton) – conference experts highlight how noise affects marine life... |
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Posted: 23 August 2011
Ahoy, everyone! Today, you are in for a treat. As you know already, we are deploying a whole range of instruments to get an idea about what type of creatures live at about 4,800 metres depth here at... |
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Posted: 23 August 2011
Quite a few of the samples being brought up from the deep are being preserved in ethanol for DNA analysis when we’re back on land.
Chrysa is preserving the sea cucumbers and sea stars... |
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Posted: 18 August 2011
The days when we take the trawl samples seem to be a somewhat confusing mixture of sleeplessness, excitement and a lot of hard work! For me, these trawls are really the reason I’ve been out here... |
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Posted: 17 August 2011
On 12 August in Golden, Colorado, USA, Dr Angus Best of the National Oceanography Centre’s Marine Geoscience Research Group made a successful bid to host the biennial Second International Workshop... |
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Posted: 17 August 2011
Scientists of the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) have been exploring the depths of the Cayman Trough without leaving Southampton, thanks to a ‘telepresence’ link from a US ship in the... |
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Posted: 15 August 2011
The deep sea is a reservoir of unknown biodiversity, particularly among invertebrates living inside the mud with many species new to science and in many ways rivalling the discovery of new insect... |
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Posted: 12 August 2011
An entry from Alexander Hart our Irish Foreign Vessel Observer.
It’s my responsibility to ensure that any research during JC062 that takes place in Irish waters (i.e., at Goban Spur) is done... |
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Posted: 10 August 2011
It’s 6 o’clock in the morning and the entire science party is dressed in brightly coloured waterproofs, steel-capped boots, and hard hats, waiting impatiently in the hanger.
We are not allowed... |