Research vessels

Until recently, ocean margins were the only part of the seafloor that was of interest to Earth system research – or those places where new seafloor is created, i.e., the mid-ocean ridges. In theory, though, very little happens in the oceanic crust except at these ridges. But new findings from...

On an expedition through mid-March on board the German research vessel METEOR, an international team led by Christian Hübscher, a professor at Universität Hamburg’s CEN, discovered a 1,500-meter-tall past waterfall beneath the seafloor south of Sicily. It was formed more than five million years...

Ex­ped­i­tion M180 SON­ETT (Syn­op­tic Obser­va­tions - a Nes­ted ap­proach to study Energy Trans­fer & Tur­bu­lence in the ocean) is a key part of the ocean ob­ser­va­tions in the second phase of TRR181 'En­ergy trans­fers in At­mo­sphere and Ocean'. The ex­ped­i­tion will take sci­ent­ists to...

On September 6, 2019, the German research vessel SONNE embarks on a 2-month expedition, headed by geologist Dr. Sebastian Lindhorst from Universität Hamburg’s Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability. The destination is an underwater system of coral reefs the size of Switzerland in...