Due to the heavy pandemic situation all around the globe, it is very difficult to do science in its traditional way. Currently traveling between Poland and Norway is almost impossible. All meetings within the NEEDED project are on the ZOOM platform. We definitely lack face-to-face meetings, but we need to endure these hard times for fieldwork. Luckily, last November Stijn De Schepper, Project PI, was able to join the Arctic expedition on RV Kronprins Haakon together with researchers from CAGE at the University of Tromsø, in the midst of Arctic winter!

It was a very successful cruise, where we have collected three long gravity cores, several multi-cores, and liters of seawater for the NEEDED project. All have been safely transported to NORCE in Bergen and are waiting for further laboratory analysis.

Read more about the cruise on the AGENSI webpage