FS Poseidon

Cruise: P427        Project: Doku-Gas

Chief scientists: Jörg Bialas, Ingo Klaucke

Duration: 25.02.-19.03.2012        Ports: Burgas-Heraklion

Tasks: 2D-Seismik, 3D-Seismik, Bathymetrie

R/V Maria S. Merian

Cruise: MSM20/2    Project: Isolde

Chief scientist: Marion Jegen

Duration: 17.01.-15.02.2012       Ports: Walvis Bay, Namibia - Recife, Brazil

Tasks: Acquisition of marine electromagnetic, active and passive seismics as well as gravity data.

Programme: The expedition with the research vessel Merian leads to the group of islands Tristan da Cunha situated in the South Atlantic Ocean with the aim to investigate the region with geophysical data.

Scientific programme cruise MSM20

Tristan & Isolde Blog

R/V Meteor

Cruise: M86/3    Project: Alpha

Chief scientist: Heidrun Kopp    

Duration: 20.01.-04.02.2012   Ports: Brindisi-Dubrovnik

Tasks: active seismics (OBS/OBH, multichannel streamer), hydroacoustics

Programme:
First fundamental investigation of the lithosphere structure beneath the southern Adria.

Scientific programme cruise M86

R/V Meteor

Cruise: M86/2        Project: Future Ocean

Chief scientist: Sebastian Krastel

Duration: 27.12.2011-15.01.2012        Ports: Cartagena-Brindisi

Tasks: Sedimentological sampling with gravity corer, hydroacoustic, 3D-seismics (p-cable), 2D-seismics

Programme:
Investigation of submarine geohazards (earthquakes, landslides, tsunamis) in three selected areas (Gioia-Basin, Street of Messina, east Sicily)