Our first North Sea survey!

On the 15th of September, a two-project combined survey started, including a first survey for the WALDO-project. In this survey we aimed to visit multiple sites: the Brown Bank and Axial Channel area and from the Axial Channel towards the Outer Silver Pit area. Unfortunately due to bad weather the first couple of days, the survey planning had to change a lot. But, we’re happy about the first TOPAS and multi-channel sparker data we already achieved in the Axial Channel. Furthermore, we already managed to take 10 vibrocores of more then 2m (with a maximum of 2.65m!).

Today is the 22th of September and we are planning to take a few more cores in the Axial Channel. An hopefully, on the last days we will complete our TOPAS-grid/sparker-grid on the Axial Channel and TOPAS-grid towards the Outer Silver Pit. And hopefully, the weather stays as good as yesterday!

North Atlantic Research Expedition

Belgica Survey 2022-18

The DynaMOD II campaign to the eastern slope of the Porcupine Seabight in the north Atlantic (offshore Ireland) set sail from 2-18 August 2022 aboard the RV Belgica. The research cruise focused on the increase of bottom current intensity in the presence of a seabed with complex topography, within the Belgica Mound Province and the Gollum Channel System. WALDO’s two PhD researchers, Despina Kyriakoudi (VLIZ & UGent) and Morgan Vervoort (UGent) took part in this expedition.

Check the daily updates and progress on the expedition blog: https://geologieugent.wordpress.com/rv-belgica-dynamod-ii/