Extreme24 Cruise
May 3 – 31, 2024. Arctic Ocean and Barents Sea
Supporting UiT and Ocean Census
The REV Ocean team and Aurora ROV visited a diverse range of deep-sea habitats, including the Knipovich Ridge, Dumshaff Abyssal Plain, Jøtul vent field, Svyatogor Ridge, Alta Seamount, and Molløy Deep at 5550 meters deep.
Organised by Ocean Census and UiT (as a follow-up to the AKMA Advancing Knowledge on Methane in the Arctic project).
The cruise focused on collecting new species and examining the interplay between changing ocean conditions and the physical, biological, and chemical response of extreme environments such as methane and oil seeps through a multidisciplinary study of sites in the Barents Sea.
