2015 – 2016 Cruises in the North Atlantic off Cape Lookout (NC)
WHOI mini Tow Cam during 2016 cruise
Free deep-sea lander recovered after deployment at 3000 m in the Gulf Stream during 2016 cruise
Eryn Eitel selecting deep-sea sediments recovered with WHOI’s MC-800 multi corer
Ben Fields and Keaton Belli deploying the shallow sediment corer
Ben Fields extracting pore waters under N2-atmosphere during the 2016 cruise
Close up of benthic chamber syringe sampler after deployment at 3000 m during the 2016 cruise
Olivia Studebaker selecting a sediment from WHOI’s MC-800 for pore water extractions and analyses during the 2016 cruise
Keaton Belli, an expert in the extraction of pore waters under N2-atmosphere for onboard analyses
Shannon Owings measuring depth profiles of main redox species in the sediment cores (bottom right) using voltammetric microelectrodes during the 2016 cruise
Benthic lander tenant is not happy to leave the seafloor during 2016 cruise.
WHOI MC-800 multicorer recovered with deep-sea sediment cores
Deployment of free deep-sea lander during 2016 cruise. From left two right: Zachary Tait (Marine Tech) and the lander crew: Ben Fields, Joel Craig, and Martial Taillefert.
Recovery of continental shelf lander during the 2016 cruise
Sampling deep sea sediment cores (Eryn Eitel)
Autonomous benthic lander for flux and microprofile measurements in shelf sediments
Not always cooperative weather…
The 2015 lander crew (from left: Yi Sun, Martial Taillefert, Joel Craig)
Everything has to be done under N2 atmosphere (Shannon Owings in action)
Our jack of all trades (Ben Fields)
Depth profiles of N2O and NO (Amanda Cavazos) and calibration of our in situ HPLC (Jordon Beckler)
The MC-800 deep sea multi-corer being deployed
The free deep sea benthic lander during deployment (flux and microprofile measurements)
September 2015 Cruise in the Mediterranean Sea (Rhone River delta and shelf)
Deep sea lander retrofitted for shallow work (< 100 m)
AIS equipment (ISEA IV Electrochemical Analyzer on top, Microcontroller on bottom, and SUBMAN-1 Micromanipulator in the background)
Benthic chamber samples after lander recovery: Each syringe represents a time point (right syringe contains leftover of the chemical tracer injected to trace transport across the sediment-water interface)
In situ voltammetric microelectrodes on micromanipulator waiting to be deployed
Non-invasive ex situ microprofile measurements with voltammetric microelectrodes
Eryn Eitel waiting to hear if we deploy the lander
The Unisense in situ microprofiler of Christophe Rabouille (CEA-CNRS), our french colleague