ACSEX
ARCHIMEDES-1
ARCHIMEDES-2
BIONIL
BIOSYS
BIOSYS / HERMES-D
BIOSYS 2007
	Introduction
	Diary
	Participants
BSIK/CAMP/LOCO/CIS
BSIK/LOCO-IW/Towed ADCP
CANYONS 2006
CARUSO
DCM
Frisian Front
GEOTRACES/HERMES
HERMES
HERMES-C (CANYONS)
HERMES 2007
IRONAGES
MARE
MERLIM
MICROVIR
MPI / IMARPE
LOCO
CARBONATE
Barter Uni-Bremen
BSIK/LOCO-IW07
ARCH-OCEAN
FACEiT
HERMES-CORALFISH
CARBOOCEAN
MOCCHA 2008
SME 117 INDUS
GLOW
INATEX / I
AISTEK-III
Pistoncore Test
LOCO/IW 2009
STRATIPHYT
Beagle Voyage
DISCOVRE 2009 / III
THOR 2009
HERMIONE /CoralFISH
PASOM
BIOFUN
DISCOVRE 2009 / IV
MOCCHA 2009
INATEX / II
KM3-Net
AMAZON PALEOCLIMATE
ILWAO
UCC Test
GEOTRACES-I
TRACOS
GEOTRACES-II
M82
CANYONS/CoralFish
ATLAS / INATEX
MOCA
PISTON CORE TEST
NICYCLE/FOKUZ
CASO/CCAMLR
M83/3
M83/4
NICYCLE/FOKUZ II
NZW
GEOTRACES
PACEMAKER
NEMESYS
STRATIPHYT
BALTIC
NICYCLE/FOKUZ III
BWN
NORMOMAP
North Sea Monitoring
Long-Chain Diols
THOR 2011
CHARLET/NICYCLE
Sources of the DSOW
North Sea Acidification
CoralFISH/HERMIONE
MEDEA
Charter Univ. Granada
MOCCHA
Barter IFM-GEOMAR
INATEX2012
Eddy Pump ANDEEP-SYSTCO

 

R/V Pelagia Cruise BIOSYS 2007
INTRODUCTION
Within the NWO funded project BIOSYS (Biology and Ecosystem Functioning of Deep Water Corals), scientists, students and technicians from the Netherlands, France, Sweden and Spain join in forces to investigate some cold water coral reefs of the Skagerrak. Main goals of the BIOSYS project is the study of growth and feeding behavior of cold water corals, as well as the role, abundance and diversity of microbial associations and the potential role of prokaryotes as surplus food or energy supply to the deep water coral bioherms. Two previous cruises within the BIOSYS project frame were already carried out in other regions of the North Atlantik: the Rockall Bank area (64PE238) and the Hebrides (64PE250). Data collected during the present cruise will thus be compared to these other deep water coral sites. All of BIOSYS activities took and take place in close cooperation with cold water coral scientists that are involved in the EU funded project HERMES. This year’s cruise will comprise extensive multibeam surveys, video transects, box coring to retrieve benthos samples and experiments with live corals will be carried out directly on board RV Pelagia. ____________________