RV BELGICA CRUISE 2014/16 – Blog post 5
The shark with frickin laser-beams attached to its head! If you have been following our cruise you will notice there has been very little mention of the video work we […]
RV BELGICA CRUISE 2014/16 – Blog post 4
As I write this campaign is drawing to a close. It has been a busy time offshore with a wide variety of activities being undertaken by the officers, crew, […]
RV BELGICA CRUISE 2014/16 – blog post 3
By Heather Stewart (Geologist, British Geological Survey) I write this after a busy day acquiring seismic, vibrocores and video data (but more about the video from Kerry next time!). We […]
RV BELGICA CRUISE 2014/16 – Blog post 2
Mobilisation What does it take to get a ship ready to go on expedition out into the Atlantic? Well quite a lot of what we call “mobilisation” has to go […]
Exploring enigmatic coral mounds: blog from the RV Belgica cruise 2014/16
The Background Back in 2007 our team, working with our friends at British Geological Survey, the Marine Institute in Ireland, and the Joint Nature Conservation Committee, went out to explore […]
The muddy deep-sea bed is not a desert
On my first ever trip to sea in 1999 on the scientific research ship ‘Challenger’ we were investigating an area of the Irish deep sea known as the Porcupine Seabight […]
DEEPSEACRU awarded £400K from NERC to study deep-sea population connectivity
Last week we received news that our grant application, submitted to the Natural Environment Research Council, has been successful and will be funded. The project entitled “The influence of population […]
Mapping the Deep
Check out our short film explaining what the Mapping the Deep project is all about.
DeepSeaCRU 