Field Activity 2013-042-FA

Identifier 2013-042-FA
Purpose Obtain methane flux data from a methane seep field in the North Sea
Location methane flux
Summary Six days at sea collecting geochemical data pertaining to methane fluxes in the North Sea.
Info derived Time series data;
Comments Work being conducted and partially sponsored by scientists from the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research and the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research - Kiel Project = Natural Gas Hydrates/DOE,
Platform
Pelagia
Length 217 feet; beam 42 feet.
Itinerary
Start Texel, Netherlands 2013-09-05
End Texel, Netherlands 2013-09-11
Days in the field 6
Bounds
West 2.1687
East 3.91113
North 53.39032
South 52.13349

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators John Pohlman
Crew members
Information specialist(s)
John Pohlman
Specialist, Information
Affiliate principal Jens Greinert, GEOMAR

Data types and categories

Data category: Environmental Data
Data type: CTD, Methane

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
SBE 9 CTD CTD (no data reported)
Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy (CRDS) CO2, Methane, Experiments (geochemical), Surveys (geochemical), Chemistry (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity