Better protecting the deep sea and its species! – Senckenberg Policy Brief
23. December 2022, 6.13 pm

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

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
Our expedition has been included in the UN Decade of Ocean Exploration!
30. September 2022, 9.21 am #AleutBio
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
Thank you very much and Good bye
6. September 2022, 1.00 pm #AleutBio

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
A time to thank
6. September 2022, 1.46 am #AleutBio

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