RV Pelagia PE439
Cruise plan
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Pelagia (64PE) |
| Cruise identifier | PE439 |
| Cruise period | 2018-06-22 — 2018-07-02 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Het Horntje, Netherlands |
| Port of return | Het Horntje, Netherlands |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | Reconstructing relative sea-level rise and shoreline change for the northern part of the Dutch North Sea and adjacent areas. The current reconstruction of relative sea-level rise for the northern part of the Dutch North Sea (north of the Dutch Wadden Islands) is based on only a handful of time-depth index points. It shows an early Holocene rise of about 25m over some 3500 years, at an average rate of more than 70 cm per century. The few available index points do not form a continuous time series. A new series of high-quality time-depth index
points will shed light on Greenland and Antarctic ice melt following the Late Glacial, and on rapid and large-scale submergence of regional topographic highs under conditions of rapid sea-level rise. |
| Chief scientist | Helge Niemann (Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research) |
| NPRC |  (1.19 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Specific | 52.359N - 52.780N, 2.840E - 3.205E |
