Among all the amazing high-tech equipments that are being used in this SO242/2 Sonne cruise, such as the OFOS (Ocean Floor Observation System), the ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle) and Landers measuring different environmental conditions at the seafloor, I present you a very traditional equipment used ubiquitously in deep-sea research: the Multicorer, or the MUC, as […]
The SO242-1 cruise used an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) to visually and acoustically inspect and map the ploughmark traces on the seafloor made by the DISCOL experiment in 1989. During SO242-2 we are using their survey data to plan a series of close up studies of the seafloor using the new Ocean Floor Observation System […]
Before my shift in the lab begins I went for a walk around the ship. In the first laboratory I find Tanja and Dick (NIOZ) testing whether the algae injector of their deep-sea incubator works properly and does not release the algae before the instrument reaches the seafloor. For the test they use tea because […]
With the second expedition the scientific crew on board changed, because the scientific focus is different to the first leg. This brought me on board of the “SONNE”. Here I will work as a lab assistant and I will try my best to report about the expedition in my free time. Right in the middle […]