04.02. - 19.02.2020 Mediterranean / Aeolian Islands, Catania (Sicily) - La Seyne sur mer (France)
- R/V ALKOR (AL533) JAGO-AUV-FieldTrials
- Chief scientist: Karen Hissmann, GEOMAR Kiel
- Location: Aeolian Islands, Vulcano, Stromboli
- Objectives: Mutuel field trials, pilot and operational training of two autonomous underwater vehicles at GEOMAR - the manned research submersible JAGO and the two Hover-AUVs ANTON und LUISE (type Girona500) - under offshore conditions and in underwater terrain with structural complexity, to water depths of 500 meter
04.02. - 24.02.2019 Cape Verde, Mindelo-Mindelo
- FS POSEIDON (POS532)
- Chief scientists: Henk-Jan Hoving, GEOMAR Kiel
- Location: Cape Verdean islands Santo Antao, Fogo, CVOO
- Objectives: In situ observations and collections of organisms living in the water column off the Cape Verde Islands to investigate their ecology and role in deep-sea carbonat transport.
21.07. - 11.08.2018 Skagerrak (Norway) + North Sea, Bergen - Bremerhaven
- FS POSEIDON (POS526)
- Chief scientist: Jens Greinert, GEOMAR Kiel
- Location: Deep water coral reefs at the border between Norway and Sweden (Skagerrak), methane seep site south of the Dutch part of the Dogger-Bank in the North Sea
- Objectives: Applying semi-autonomous subsea optical monitoring for methane seepage and cold water coral studies in the North Sea
27.06. - 20.07.2018 Norway, Bergen - Bergen
- FS POSEIDON (POS525)
- Chief scientist: Janina Büscher, GEOMAR Kiel
- Location: Deep water coral reefs in fjords and on the shelf along the Norwegian coast
- Objectives: Food web dynamics and ecosystem interactions in cold-water coral reefs off Norway: in situ measurements of organic matter and nutrient cycling and predator-prey relationships
13.02. - 02.03.2018 Cape Verde, Mindelo-Mindelo
- FS POSEIDON (POS520)
- Chief scientists: Henk-Jan Hoving & Björn Fiedler, GEOMAR Kiel
- Location: Cape Verdean islands Santo Antao, Fogo, Santiago, CVOO
- Objectives: In situ observations and collections to investigate deep pelagic ecology in Cape Verde waters
2017 - General overhaul and technical field trials
07.06. - 29.06.2016 Spitsbergen / Norway
- FS MARIA S. MERIAN (MSM55)
- Chief scientist: Max Wisshak - Senckenberg am Meer
- Location: Mosselbukta North-Spitsbergen und Bjørnøy-Banken South-Spitsbergen
- Objectives: ARCA - Arctic Carbonates - Habitat characteristics and carbonate cycling of macrophyte-supported polar carbonate factories (Svalbard - coralline red algae)
04.02. - 15.02.2016 Canary Islands / Spain
- FS POSEIDON (POS494)
- Chief scientist: Dietrich Lange and Mark Hannington GEOMAR Kiel
- Location: El Hierro / Canary Islands (Spain)
- Objectives: Investigations at the 2011/2012 formed underwater volcano off south El Hierro
19.03. - 26.03.2015 Germany, Walchensee
- shore based
- Chief scientist: JAGO-Team GEOMAR Kiel and E.ON Power Stations
- Location: Walchensee / Upper Bavaria
- Objectives: In situ inspection and 3D-documentation of inflow tunnel between the freshwater lake Walchensee and the water power station Walchenseekraftwerk in Kochel
13.10. - 21.11.2014 Namibia, Cape Town - Cape Town
- with RV S.A. AGULHAS II (South Africa)
- Party Chief: Graham Esterhuizen, De Beers Marine South Africa
- Location: southwest coast Namibia
- Objectives: Direct seafloor observation (ground truthing) - geology, efficiency and environmental impact of submarine mining in the offshore diamond mining area off the Orange River mouth
14.08. - 04.09.2014 Norway
- FS POSEIDON (POS473)
- Chief scientist: Armin Form, GEOMAR Kiel
- Location: Trondheimfjord, Sula Ridge (Middle Norway)
- Objectives: Cold water coral reefs - Documentation and recovery of experiments and instruments for in situ investigations of coral growth rates, environmental parameter and bioerosion (BMBF-Project BIOACID II)
24.06. - 18.07.2013 Norway
- FS POSEIDON (POS455)
- Chief scientist: Armin Form, GEOMAR Kiel
- Location: Trondheimfjord, Sula Ridge (Middle Norway)
- Objectives: Documentation and sampling at cold water coral reefs off Norway for investigations on the effects of CO2-caused climate change (BMBF-Project BIOACID II)
08.04. - 10.04.2013 Bay of Eckernfoerde / Baltic Sea
- FS ALKOR (AL412b)
- Chief scientist: Gerd Hoffmann-Wieck, GEOMAR Kiel
- Location: Bay of Eckernfoerde / Baltic Sea
- Objectives: Media outreach and investigations on the impact of bottom trawling in the Baltic Sea
11.08. - 13.09.2012 Svalbard / Norway
27.03. - 23.04.2012 Saudi Arabia / Red Sea
- with RV PELAGIA (NIOZ / NL) (64PE350b + 351)
- Chief scientists: Mark Schmidt, GEOMAR Kiel (350b); Ali Aidaroos, King Abdulaziz University Jeddah (KAU), Saudi Arabia and Benjamin Kürten, GEOMAR Kiel (351)
- Location: Red Sea, off Saudi Arabian coast
- Objectives: Jeddah-Transect Project - multidisciplinary investigation of the Red Sea, Cooperation between GEOMAR, KAU, GIZ (German Society of International Cooperation)
03.09. - 30.09.2011 Norway
- with RV POSEIDON (POS420)
- Chief scientist: Armin Form, IFM-GEOMAR Kiel
- Location: Cold water coral reefs along the Norwegian shelf
- Objectives: Documentation and sampling of cold water corals for experiments on ocean acidification
31.03. - 14.04.2011 Baleric Islands, Mediterranean
- with RV GARCIA DEL CID Spain
- Chief scientist: Josep-Maria Gili, ICM Institut de Ciències del Mar (CMIMA-CSIC) Barcelona, Spain
- Location: Street between Mallorca and Menorca
- Objectives: EU-Project LIFE INDEMARES Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in the western Mediterranean: Inventory and designation of marine Nature 2000 areas in the Spanish sea
03.09. - 14.09.2010 Baleric Islands, Mediterranean
- with RV GARCIA DEL CID Spain
- Chief scientist: Josep-Maria Gili, ICM Institut de Ciències del Mar (CMIMA-CSIC) Barcelona, Spain
- Location: Street between Mallorca and Menorca
- Objectives: EU-Project LIFE Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in the western Mediterranean: Inventory and designation of marine Nature 2000 areas in the Spanish sea
06.06. - 20.06.2010 Cap de Creus, Mediterranean
- with RV GARCIA DEL CID Spain
- Chief scientist: Josep-Maria Gili, ICM Institut de Ciències del Mar (CMIMA-CSIC) Barcelona, Spain
- Location: Cap de Creus Canyon (Golf of Lion) and shelf
- Objectives: EU-Project LIFE Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in the western Mediterranean: Inventory and designation of marine Nature 2000 areas in the Spanish sea
11.04. - 08.05.2010 Black Sea / Ukraine
- with RV M.S.MERIAN (MSM15/1)
- Chief scientist: Antje Boetius, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology Bremen
- Location: Ukrainian shelf west of crimea peninsula
- Objectives: EU-Project HYPOX In situ montitoring of oxygen depletion in hypoxic (low oxygen) ecosystms of coastal and open seas, and land-locked water bodies
30.08. - 29.09.2009 Norway
- with RV POSEIDON (POS391)
- Chief scientist: Armin Form / Ulf Riebesell IFM-GEOMAR Kiel
- Location: Cold water coral reefs along the Norwegian shelf
- Objectives: Documentation and sampling of cold water corals for experiments on ocean acidification
01.06. - 01.07.2009 Tahiti / South Pacific
- with MV BRAVEHEART (New Zealand)
- Chief scientist: Christian Dullo IFM-GEOMAR Kiel
- Location: Tahiti / French Polynesia
- Objectives: The last deglacial sea-level and climate changes, records from coral reefs around Tahiti
22.10. - 03.12.2008 Western Indian Ocean (Comoros and Tanzania)
- with MV SOLAND (Kenya)
- Chief scientist: Hans Fricke IFM-GEOMAR Kiel
- Location: Comoro Archipelago, south coast Tanzania, Zanzibar, Pemba
- Objectives: Populationbiology and Biogeography of the living coelacanth Latimeria chalumnae
08.03. - 25.03.2008 Norway
- with RV ALKOR (AL316)
- Chief scientist: Ulf Riebesell IFM-GEOMAR Kiel
- Location: cold water coral reefs NE-Skagerrak and Sula Ridge
- Objectives: Documentation and collection of cold water corals for investigations on ocean acidification
23.10. - 01.11.2007 Alpine Lake
- landbased operation
- Chief scientist: Hans Fricke IFM-GEOMAR Kiel and MPI Bremen
- Location: Austria
- Objectives: Microbiology of a deep anoxic fresh water lake; documentation and sampling of bacterial mats at the lake bottom; collaboration with the Max-Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology Bremen
04.09. - 17.09.2007 NE Mediterranean, Barcelona - Barcelona
- with RV GARCIA DEL CID (Spain)
- Chief scientist: Instituto de Ciencias del Mar Barcelona, Spain (C. Orejas and J.-M. Gili)
- Location: northeastern Mediterranean, Golf of Lion, Cap de Creus Canyon
- Objectives: EU Projekt HERMES; Biodiversity and distribution of cold water corals in a submarine canyon with strong sediment mass transport, documentation and sampling of macrobenthos, measurements of oceanographic parameters.
04.09. - 17.09.2007 Norway, Bremerhaven - Tromsoe
- with RV POLARSTERN (PS ARK 22/1a)
- Chief scientist: Jörn Thiede, AWI Bremerhaven
- IFM-GEOMAR: Sascha Flögel, Andres Rüggeberg
- Location: Norwegian shelf, Roest Reef und Traena Reef south of Lofoten Islands, Sotbakken north of Tromsoe
- Objectives: EU Projekt Hermes; Exploration of the wide-stretched cold water coral reefs south and north of the Lofoten Islands, biodiversity and microbiology of sponges inside and in the vicinity of the reefs, measurements of oceanographic parameters.
01.04. - 01.05.2007 Namibia, Cape Town - Cape Town
- with RV ALGOA (South Africa)
- Party Chief: Leonard Ricketts, De Beers Marine South Africa
- Location: southwest coast Namibia
- Objectives: Direct seafloor observation (ground truthing) and investigation of sediments and rock outcrop within the offshore diamond mining area on the continental shelf off the Orange River mouth
10.10. - 02.11.2006 North Sea, Kiel - Kiel
- with RV ALKOR (AL290)
- Chief scientist: Olaf Pfannkuche IFM-GEOMAR Kiel
- Location: northern and mid North Sea (Norway and UK), Gullfaks oil- and Tommeliten gasfield
- Objectives: Investigation and sampling of natural methan gas seeps and exploration of a "Blow Out" methan gas eruption crater
31.07. - 17.08.2006 Spitsbergen (Svalbard), Longyearbyen - Longyearbyen
- with RV MARIA SYBILLE MERIAN (MSM02/3)
- Chief scientist: André Freiwald, IPAL University Erlangen
- IFM-GEOMAR: Andres Rüggeberg, A. Form, M. Meyerhöfer
- Location: Svalbard (Spitsbergen), North Cape of Nordaustlandet, Hinlopen Strait
- Objectives: Exploration of the Spitsbergen Shelf, coralline red algal reefs (rhodolith banks) as climate archives, carbonate production and climate changes in polar ecosystems
24.03. - 31.03.2006 Olso Fjord, Norway
- with RV ALKOR (AL275)
- Chief scientist: Ulf Riebesell IFM-GEOMAR Kiel
- Location: Cold water corals reefs in the Oslo Fjord, NE-Skagerrak
- Objectives: Documentation and sampling of cold water corals for experiments on the effects of ocean acidification
