What’s lurking on top of the below
Greetings from onboard the R/V Helmer Hanssen, where we are exploring the Barents Sea in …
Stressed seeps under pressure
Text: Bénédicte Ferré One of our operations was to deploy two piezometers in order to …
Cohabitation of methane seeps and coral reef
Text: Bénédicte Ferré The project EMAN7 (Environmental impact of Methane seepage and sub-seabed characterization at …
Welcome aboard our virtual research cruise!
Have you ever dreamt of sailing into the Arctic and taking part in a research …
In-situ horizontal pressure measurements at deep marine seafloor methane emission off west-Svalbard
Why gas emissions from the seafloor have stopped thousands of years ago in some areas …
Return from the forest of the 10,000 flares
Text and photos: Mauro Pau A fun moment during the working on the just acquired …
Shifting focus to a glaciological perspective
Text and photos: Henry Patton Our final 24 hours of this research expedition will …
A drop in the ocean
Text and photos: Frank W. Jakobsen (PhD at CAGE) and André Jensen (NPD) It has …
Reflections of a project leader and co-chief scientist for the AKMA cruise
I had never really thought about writing a blog before, but as I am on-board …
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Using various sampling procedures to investigate the flares
Text and photos: Mauro Pau, Postdoc on Hopendjupet CAGE21-4 cruise August 6-7th, 2021. Yesterday’s multibeam echosounder …
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Investigating the forest of flares
Text and photos: Mauro Pau, Postdoc on Hopendjupet CAGE21-4 cruise August 5th, 2021. We are in …
The decision is made: we will sail to the central Barents Sea
We are heading to an area of exceptionally intense seafloor methane leakage, associated with sea …
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Fog, winds, waves and WHALES – our jokers
There is not only the weather variable when we work with geophysics off the Svalbard …
Transit back to Tromsø
Cruise Blog by Frances Cooke: Day 12 July 18th, 2021 Text and photo: Frances Cooke …
Waiting for calm weather windows
Cruise Blog by Frances Cooke: Day 11 July 17th, 2021 Text and photo: Frances Cooke …
Whales as far as the eye can see
Cruise Blog by Frances Cooke: Day 10 July 16th, 2021 Text: Frances Cooke (PhD Candidate …
Arrived to new survey site
Cruise Blog by Frances Cooke: Day 9 July 15th, 2021 Text and photos: Frances Cooke …
Working around the sea ice
Cruise Blog by Frances Cooke: Day 8 July 14th, 2021 Text and photo: Frances Cooke …
Poor visibility and successful OBS recoveries
Cruise Blog by Frances Cooke: Day 7 July 13th, 2021 Text and photo: Frances Cooke …
Back to site
Cruise Blog by Frances Cooke: Day 6 July 12th, 2021 Text and photo: Frances Cooke …
A quick stop in Longyearbyen
Cruise Blog by Frances Cooke: Day 5 July 11th, 2021 Text and photo: Frances Cooke …
Successful OBS recovery
Cruise Blog by Frances Cooke: Day 4 July 10th, 2021 Text and photo: Frances Cooke …
The unpredictability factor during a cruise
July 9th, 2021 Text and photo: Andreia Plaza-Faverola, chief scientist SEAMSTRESS/CAGE cruise. We have …
Instrument preparations are underway
Cruise Blog by Frances Cooke: Day 2 July 8th, 2021 Text and photo: Frances Cooke …
Transit to Vestnesa Ridge – West Svalbard
Cruise Blog by Frances Cooke: Day 1 July 7th, 2021 Text and photo: Frances Cooke …
A new cruise season starts – what will the Ocean Bottom Seismometers we left last year tell us?
We are looking forward to get the Ocean Bottom Seismometers (OBS) up and see whether …
The last station
We left the Greenland Sea in a rush! After searching for ice-free waters and mapping …
Most fabulous experience
The Arctic ice pack is a natural wonder. Observations over the past decades show that …
Polar bear in sight!
It happens during the sea-ice coring when Anna Silyakova, Henry Patton and Christine Lockwood-Ireland are …
Harvesting the DNA
Watching the ice break is as captivating and mesmerising as watching the fire burn. Text …
Beauty of the Dark
A November cruise towards Greenland is challenging. You only realise it when you face it. …
The sound of sea ice hitting the hull
This cruise will be a bit of an adventure, in that it is the first …
Greenland in the Dark
Shall I start with COVID-19? Yes. I can assure you that we keep social distancing, …
Picking up plastic trash
According to a study from 2015 1, between 4.8 to 12.7 million tons of plastic …
“Have you not succeeded? Continue! Have you succeeded? Continue!” – Fridtjof Nansen
What is it that attracts the explorer’s heart so much to the sea? To the …
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Fish gets in the way
You never stop learning. That this is the core philosophy of our profession and the …
Rituals after our Arctic expeditions
It has become a tradition that when we finish an expedition in Longyearbyen, we celebrate …
Into the fjord
For the last two days, we have been waiting for the arrival of the bad …
Vestnesa is hot with fever
When I Ieft for the cruise I had strong mixed feelings about leaving. My one-year-old …
It’s all about that heat and stress (tectonic, of course)
We had a rough transit from Tromsø to the Fram Strait. Six-meter waves and …
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Mixed Emotions
Setting up a demanding scientific expedition to the Arctic Ocean in the midst of a …
Mud everywhere
Adventdalen on Spitsbergen, like many other glacial valleys in the High Arctic, is punctuated by …
Hidden Fractures of the Mother Earth
Text and photo: Andreia Plaza-Faverola, researcher CAGE; project leader SEAMSTRESS. By the time the last …
Searching for the unexpected signals in the deep sea
Text and photo: Andreia Plaza-Faverola, researcher CAGE; project leader SEAMSTRESS We started the cruise abiding by …
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A special kind of fishing trip
Text and photos: Andrea Plaza-Faverola, researcher CAGE; project leader SEAMSTRESS. Seven ocean bottom seismometers (OBS) …
An altruistic beginning for SEAMSTRESS expedition
Text: Andreia Plaza-Faverola, leader. SEAMSTRESS project. The second expedition to continue with the Ocean …
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We discovered new methane pingos in the Barents Sea
Text: Pavel Serov, CAGE. We were not supposed to find gas hydrates (flammable ice-like crystals …
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Coring under the Arctic midnight sun
Text and photos: Lina Alexandropoulou, CAGE It’s Monday the 13th of July 2020, 13:54:09. According …
Into the blue
Text and photos: Henry Patton, chief scientist Even by generous estimates, around 80% of the …
Birds will be birds
Text and photos: Frances Cooke, phd CAGE. I arrived in Tromsø in 2019 at the …
Into the heart of an ancient ice sheet
Text: Henry Patton, chief scientist. During the last ice age a vast, 3-km thick ice …
Wrapped up on the way home
After discovering new hot spots for methane release and collecting nice new data set, we …
Hunting for flares
For the duration of this cruise, we are hunters. Not for wildlife, not for the …
Murphy’s law strikes in High Arctic
According to the so-called Murphy’s law “If something can go wrong, it will. And usually …
The last day
We ended the cruise in the Trondheimsfjord. After completing the program in the Vestbrona Volcanic …
You cannot work for 24 hours!
What is the purpose of a research cruise, you may ask? Yes, spend the time …
Paparazzi on the high seas
Being in the limelight can be so stressful, it can lead people to give up …
Steaming south-southwest
After we finished the final ROV operations at the South Canyon in Lofoten around Monday …
Midnight sun trip through amazing scenery
As I’m writing this, we’ve just finished our first-day onboard Research Vessel G.O. Sars. Text: …
Leaving Tromsø onboard RV “G.O. Sars” on a brilliant summer day
We set out for a journey, chasing the freshwater from an ancient ice sheet, on …
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