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MPI re­se­ar­chers at the Haa­kon Mos­by mud vol­ca­noe

MPI re­se­ar­chers on board of the Ger­man re­se­arch ves­sel “Po­lar­stern
 
MPI researchers on board of the German research vessel “Polarstern”.

The RV Po­lar­stern crui­se ARK-XXII/1a-c cont­ri­bu­tes to the EU-fun­ded pro­ject HERMES (Hot­spot Eco­sys­tem Re­se­arch on the Mar­gins of Eu­ro­pean Seas) and is an in­itia­ti­ve of the International Polar Year.
Du­ring Le­g1a (29.05.-21.06.) the eco­lo­gy of cold wa­ter co­ral reefs along the Nor­we­gi­an mar­gin have been stu­di­ed. Du­ring Le­g1b (23.06. - 09.07) we will in­ves­ti­ga­te with the help of the deep-wa­ter ro­bot QUEST (MA­RUM) the dis­tri­bu­ti­on and ac­tivi­ty of mi­cro­bi­al com­mu­nities at the fa­mous Haa­kon Mos­by Mud Vol­ca­no, which is known to emit lar­ge quan­ti­ties of me­tha­ne to the hy­dro­s­phe­re. The geo­lo­gi­cal, che­mi­cal and bio­lo­gi­cal in­ves­ti­ga­ti­on of gas seeps in po­lar re­gi­ons and other are­as of the worl­d's oce­an is a fo­cus of a re­se­arch col­la­bo­ra­ti­on of MPI, AWI and IF­RE­MER, and is car­ri­ed out in co­ope­ra­ti­on with se­veral other na­tio­nal and in­ter­na­tio­nal in­sti­tu­ti­ons in the frame­work of HER­MES.
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