Better protecting the deep sea and its species! – Senckenberg Policy Brief
23. December 2022, 6.13 pm AleutBio
Chong Chen (JAMSTEC, Japan); Henry Knauber (SGN, Frankfurt), Anne-Helene Tandberg (University of Bergen, Norway)
The eyes of the world are on Montreal, where participants at the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15 for short – 07.-19.12.2022) reached a new agreement overnight to stop global biodiversity loss. According to the World Biodiversity Council IPBES (Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services),… more
AleutBio sample logistic - A story of two containers, Atlantic crossing and the German Autobahn
22. December 2022, 8.41 pm AleutBio
Copyright: © 2022, Andreas Kelch
Hello dear friends, after a while of silence, here is a little update from the AleutBio team in Frankfurt. We were not idle, but quite busy with all the logistical imponderables that such a transport from Canada to Germany brings with it. Just one thing… more
Under the motto “Creating the Ocean We Want,” the UN Decade of Ocean Exploration for Sustainable Development (#Link) has been under way around the world since June of last year and will continue until 2030. Our “AleutBio Expedition SO293” has now been officially declared a… more
Copyright: © 2022, Dr. Chong Chen
On 29th August we finished the easternmost transect (stations 12-14) and reached our additional station 15 after about 5 hours of travel time. The last faunal greeting we send is a picture of a beautiful octopus, probably the species Grimpoteuthis imperator Ziegler & Sagorny, 2021. It had… more
Copyright: © 2022, Thomas Walter, Creative Commons by Attribution; CC-BY-NC-SA
This is my second and last Blog for the AleutBio Expedition. We started this great hadal adventure 44 days ago. I want to thank the people on board, who all generously shared their knowledge with me, the methods and preliminary results of their scientific research projects.… more