{"id":630,"date":"2017-08-14T20:51:35","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T18:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arctrain.de\/?p=630"},"modified":"2018-11-08T10:57:47","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T09:57:47","slug":"630-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arctrain.de\/630-2\/","title":{"rendered":"MSM-64 research cruise"},"content":{"rendered":"
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MSM64 participants posing for a group picture. Photobomb by RV Maria S. Merian.<\/p><\/div>\n

Cruise MSM-64 was carried out aboard the German research vessel (RV) Maria S. Merian, a multi-purpose vessel designed for interdisciplinary research in coastal seas, on continental shelves, and in the blue ocean.<\/p>\n

The cruise focused on assessing the strength and variation of the\u00a0currents\u00a0in\u00a0the southern subpolar North Atlantic. Another\u00a0aim\u00a0was to investigate the variability in the formation and spreading of North Atlantic Deep Water and its components, one of the dominant water masses of the subpolar North Atlantic.\u00a0For these purposes, ship-based measurements were\u00a0carried out along 47\u00b0\/48\u00b0N. Furthermore, long-term measurement arrays installed at the sea-bottom along this transect were recovered and redeployed again.<\/p>\n

Three participants of the cruise,\u00a0Aleksei Buinyi and Hannah Nowitzki from the University of Bremen, and Yarisbel Garcia Quintana from\u00a0the\u00a0University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, are members of ArcTrain. The\u00a0video<\/span>\u00a0below summarized their experience, unique and challenging. Enjoy!<\/p>\n