2021 10 - R/V Alkor Cruise AL566
AL566 - 2.-15.10.2021 - Baltic Sea: Kiel - Sassnitz (6./7.10.) - Sassnitz (11./12.10.) - Kiel
Working Area: Kiel Bay, Mecklenburg Bay, Arkona Basin, Pommeranian Bay
this is our annual training cruise in marine geophysical work including seismic, acoustic, magnetic and water column studies.
This is the schedule for logstics and travel:
02.10: Equipment loading at Ostpier, then transit to Westpier, and setup of equipment on deck and in the labs with students
03.10: Departure, normally 8:00
06.10: Late morning arrival in Sassnitz harbour, exchange of student groups
07.10: Departure from Sassnitz, normally 8:00
11.10: Early morning arrival in Sassnitz, partially equipment unloaded, student exchange
12.10: Departure from Sassnitz, typically 1t 8:00
15.10. Arrival in Kiel, unloading at Ostpier, typically 8:00.
Various geophysical equipment will be used during each leg, such as:
Magnetometer, Multichannel Seismic, Airgun, Sparker, Multibeam, Sidescan Sonar, CTD, Seismic Frame
Potential working areas are, depending on weather conditions, Kiel Bay, Mecklenburg Bay, Arkona Basin, Bornholm Basin
Instrumentation
- micro GI Gun 2 x 0.1 L (Generator-Injector; Sodera)
- Sparker DuraSpark 400 (Fraunhofer IWES)
- Compressor Sauer & Sohn
- Teledyne Streamer 220 m 96 channels (single hydrophones)
- MicroEel Streamer 50 m, 24 channels (single hydrophones)
- MaMuCS 96 channel Recording System
- MaMuCS 80 channel mobile Recording System
- Multibeam System Reson 7125
- Side Scan Sonar System Imagenex CMax 2 with winch (300 m)
- Single Hydrophone and 8-channel MaMuCS System (up to 100 kHz)
- Echosounder Kongsberg Simrad EK80 (onboard)
- Sediment Echosounder Innomar SES-medium (onboard)
- Magnetometer SeaSpy2
- CTD (onboard)
Students: 13 + 2 PhD
Participants:
Spiess, Schwenk, Frederichs (Leg 1+2), Römer-Stange, Mhmod
Leg 1: Gelhaus, Schmidt, Song, Wesch
Leg 2: Brehmer-Moltmann, Serje-Gutierrez, Valeeva, Ajibola, Pilot, Ahmadov
Leg 3: Albarbary, Brand, Kantner, Ahamdov, Valeeva, Ruf
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Cruise finished in Kiel at 8:00, 15.10.21