Other ID: none
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s): USGS GAS HYDRATES (LQ000FP)
Principal Investigator(s): John Pohlman
Affiliate Investigator(s):
Information Specialist(s): John Pohlman
Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Time Series: Geochemical Monitoring
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Measure the flux of methane from the ocean to the atmosphere and independently measure atmospheric gradients of methane and CO2 over the Svalbard margin, site of hundreds of known upper slope seeps
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway
End Port/Location: Tromso, Norway
Start Date: 2014-05-30
End Date: 2014-06-30
Equipment Used: Other, USGS-GAS
Information to be Derived: Methane flux measuring device
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Measured the flux of methane from the ocean to the atmosphere and independently measured atmospheric gradients of methane and CO2 over the Svalbard margin, site of hundreds of known upper slope seeps. Gathered time series methane flux data.
Staff: Michael Casso, Eric Moore
Affiliate Staff:
Notes: Scientists from the CAGE program in Tromso and from the MOCA collaboration will be going. Using methane sampling equipment. Equipment updated by VeeAnn Cross.
Location:
Svalbard, Norway, Europe, Arctic Ocean
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 79.99621 | South: 75.70662 | West: 18.4302 | East: -0.2417 |
Platform(s):
 Helmer Hanssen |
Pohlman, J.W., Greinert, J., Ruppel, C.D., Silyakova, A., Vielstadte, L., Casso, M., Mienert, J., Bunz, S., 2017, Enhanced CO2 uptake at a shallow Arctic Ocean seep field overwhelms the positive warming potential of emitted methane: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114 (21), https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1618926114.
Ruppel, C.D., Pohlman, J.W., and Casso, M., 2017, Data and calculations to support the study of the sea-air flux of methane and carbon dioxide on the West Spitsbergen margin in June 2014: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7M906V0.
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Other | --- | --- | --- |
| USGS-GAS | --- | Surveys (geochemical) Experiments (geochemical) Chemistry Geochemical Monitoring CO2 Methane | gasfluxdata_spitsbergen2014 (Data and calculations to support the study of the sea-air flux of methane and carbon dioxide on the West Spitsbergen margin in June 2014) |
