In the Field
Field activities are a critical part of CGB's activities. In the field researchers collect data to support or disprove ideas they are working on. Successive field trips allow the researchers to build up clearer pictures of the geology, the biology and the geobiology of the area in question.
April 2010 Rolf Birger Pedersen was aboard the RRS James Cook on a research cruise that discovered the deepest hydrothermal vent field yet found. Read more.
June -July 2009, Lise Øvreås was aboard the RV Thomas Thompson studying hydrothermal vent areas in the Southwestern Pacific. Read more.
Summers 2006 and 2005 had important research cruises that found the first active vents north of Iceland in relatively shallow waters north of the Island of Jan Mayen.
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Fieldwork 2011
In Summer 2011 CGB had a 3-leg research cruise, PhD student Eirik Gjerløw spent a month on Jan Mayen Island, and Steffen Jørgensen spent 2 months at sea.
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Research cruise 2010
The first part 24 June – 2 July, led by Haflidi Haflidason, will employ the Calypso coring technology to extract up to 20m sediment cores. The second part 5-20 July will stop briefly at the Håkon Mosby Mud Volcano and Loki’s Castle for sample taking before heading north and west along the Knipovich Ridge to look for new sites of hydrothermal activity using AUV technology to support the traditional CTD and ROV work.
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Research cruise 2009
1-11 August CGB researchers are climbing aboard aboard the Norwegian RV, G.O.Sars and are heading to sea again to re-visit Loki's Castle, the world's northernmost identified Black Smoker, and Håkon Mosby Mud Volcano, one of the world’s largest underwater mud volcanoes. This year a production team will be onboard filming a segment for Discovery Channel's series: ”Mighty ships” [in action].
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Drilling 2008
Summer 2008, CGB researchers travelled to the Barberton Mountain Land in South Africa to carry out scientific drilling in some of the oldest rocks on Earth. Working with colleagues from the Africa Earth Observatory Network, University of Cape Town they drilled into rock that is c. 3.4-3.5 billion years old to investigate early life and environments on ancient earth.
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Research cruise 2008
Summer 2008 the G.O.Sars headed north once more with students and scientists from a variety of disciplines including geology, geochemistry, biology and microbiology. There were five teachers on board who worked closely with the scientific crew and who were responsible for maintaining a daily journal.
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Research cruise 2007
Be a virtual participant in some of the most exciting avant-garde research in Norway. In this web site you will be able to follow the researchers day by day and you will learn about how they undertake a scientific exploration of this fascinating environment.