A scientific expedition led by the UK’s National Oceanography Centre (NOC) will mark four decades of cutting-edge science at one of the world’s deep ocean scientific research sites this summer.Setting sail today
A scientific expedition led by the UK’s National Oceanography Centre (NOC) will mark four decades of cutting-edge science at one of the world’s deep ocean scientific research sites this summer.
Setting sail today (May 30), from Southampton, onboard the Royal Research Ship (RRS) James Cook, this intensive, 25-day expedition will focus on the Porcupine Abyssal Plain Sustained Observatory (PAP-SO), 800 km from Land’s End in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean.
Started in 1985, at 4,850 m depth, it is the world’s longest running time series of life on an abyssal plain-–areas of flat seabed at 4,000-6,000 meters deep—and one of the world’s longest deep-ocean observatories of critical ocean data, from seabed to the surface.
This year’s expedition (JC278), underpinned by UK National Environment Research Council (NERC) funding, through the AtlantiS program, will include testing new, autonomous technologies alongside well established observational methods.
These will add to the long-term multidisciplinary observations at the site, which provide an important window into long-term changes in the health of the deep ocean, from the impacts of climate change to its role as a carbon sink.
New advanced autonomous technologies being tested on this 41st ship-based expedition to the PAP-SO include the deployment of new sensors and
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