FS Poseidon PO534
Cruise plan
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FS Poseidon (06PO) |
| Cruise identifier | PO534 |
| Cruise period | 2019-05-01 — 2019-05-28 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Bremerhaven, Germany |
| Port of return | Bremerhaven, Germany |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | This cruise relates to the EU project: "Strategies for Environmental Monitoring of Marine Carbon Capture and Storage" STEMM-CCS.
Aims 1. Develop and test new sensitive and robust subsea monitoring technology, which is indicative for subsea C02 leakage. New technology: lab-on-a-chip, optodes, membrane inlet mass spectrometry, (multibeam)echosounder quantification. 2. Tests are conducted under a controlled C02-release experiment at Goldeneye (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FteAvlLEvzk). 3. Porewater geochemistry, benthic flux measurement, pelagic water column monitoring provide data for quantitative interpretation of C02-induced biogeochemical changes by numerical modelling to improve best practice guides for CCS integrity monitoring. 4. Hydroacoustic water column imaging and atmospheric CH4 and C02-measurements above abandoned wells in the North Sea provides statistical sound carbon flux estimates from 'leaky wells' into the North Sea and atmosphere. |
| Chief scientist | Mark Schmidt (GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Kiel (East Shore Campus)) |
| NPRC |  (4.12 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Specific | Northern North Sea |