FS Meteor M134
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FS Meteor (06M3) |
| Cruise identifier | M134 |
| Cruise period | 2017-01-16 — 2017-02-17 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Stanley, Falkland Islands (Malvinas) |
| Port of return | Punta Arenas, Chile |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | Objectives
The overarching goal of the proposed cruises was to increase our knowledge of fluid flow and gas emissions and its related processes in general and specifically in the area around South Georgia, where this phenomenon was newly discovered during RV Polarstern cruise ANT-29/4 in March/April 2013. Besides the intense investigation of the gas emissions (occurrence, source, variability, quantity and fate), we were further interested if gas is stored in the shallow sediments in form of gas hydrates and how the seep sites are colonised. Moreover, the bio(-geo)-chemical processes in the sediments and in the water column have been planned to analyse to comprehensively understand the fluid flow system and the pathways of dissolved iron from the island to the open ocean. |
| Chief scientist | Gerhard Bohrmann (University of Bremen, Center for Marine Environmental Sciences) |
| Cruise report |  (0.97 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | South West Atlantic Ocean (limit 20W) |
| Specific | South Georgia |
| Track charts | (0.76 MB) |
