EWMA – BARCUT successful Cruise

Preparing multicore

Junttila prepares the multicore

With the UiT research vessel Helmer Hansen, five environmental geologists and two microbiologists from EWMA and BARCUT, conducted 19-25 June a successful cruise stretching from Longyearbyen to Hammerfest and Repparfjord. The purpose was to sample sea floor sediments to look for traces of petroleum- and mining- activity in the southwest Barents Sea and high north coastal areas. One hundred and fourteen stations sampled, using multi-corer, box-corer and gravity-corer.

Multicore with samples

Multicore with samples

The amount of stations was also a result of problems getting proper samples.  Sometimes equipment failed, or non-penetrable sediments prevented us from getting cores of acceptable quality or a sample of interest. Material for months of work in the lab is collected. The results will help to further understand environmental effects, improve modelling and prediction of potential impacts.

Rocky sediments

Rocky sediments

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