Cruise 2016


Land!

 

After 25 days we finally came back home. 

Mission completed.

We will miss it....au revoir, see you in the WestMedFlux 2 :)

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Ping Pong competition

Our ping pong tournement finally has a winner! Thanks to everyone for the great participation!!

 

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Coffee and conductivity

Everything works better after a good italan coffee... including the conductivity measurements!

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The whole science group!

France, Russia, Algeria, Italy, Spain, Belgium: we are really international!

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Half-cruise party

Pot de mid-campaigne... socialize for science!

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Chiefs portrait

Our captain and chef de mission together! we are in good hands :)

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Creativity workshop on board

Sculpure made of precious deep Mediterranean Sea sediments...for sale now!

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Life on boat

There are many places on boat to relax and enjoy a good company (and a good weather!)

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Shaking time

A daily fitness is organized in the geochemical laboratory: shaking the bottles for gas analysis.

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Discussing cores can be fun

Exchanging thoughts on the discovery of a new sediment feature in the Western Mediterranean.  

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France and Russia collaborate for cores!

Everything is ready for our international core description! :)

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Chief-talk

Today all people on board (with a great participation of the crew) listened to a lecture dedicated to our mission!

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Scientific happiness vol.2

Just in front of the alcalinity table we've got the conductivity measurements!

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Scientific happiness vol.1

Before doing alcalinity estimation, we have to get some samples of core pore water for ions analysis...smiling!

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Data acquisition control

Data acquisition control needs someone checking for the instrument from a sunny viewpoint!

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Looking for salt diapirs

Part of the team has to interpret the seismic profiles to select the right place to core and to do heat flow measurements...

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Sunday - Labour Day - Russian Easter

Today is Sunday but also 1st of May (Labour Day) and Russian Easter...three good reasons to relax but the bell is calling us to our duty on sea! Luckily our day began with a good croissant :)

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Hard core preparation

Thanks to the strong and efficient crew, our sediment corer is ready to attack any possible seabed.

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Floating heat flow university

Sitting on his instrument, the master is explaining to his disciples the secrets of marine heat flow acquisition.

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Sometimes, we have a good weather

Enjoy a mediterranean sunset after a hard working day

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Our WestMedFlux Sea Scale

The WestMedFlux mugs not only serve for drinking coffee and staying awake at night shift, but also give an indication of the state of the sea.

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Core description

Each section of the core is described in detail by sedimentologists.

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Oleg's birthday

For his birthday, Oleg was allowed to start the heat flow probe. (The chief was keeping an eye on his)

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Heat-flow acquisition

This is what we are looking at in the laboratory when our heat flow probe is in de sediments.

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Kullenberg cores


Full action for the first core onboard: while the sawing team takes a first look at the sediments, the others clean and prepare the piston corer for the next station.

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Bad weather 2

Be careful when you are working on the desk : a stormy sea can take you by surprise and offer you a big salt-water shower!

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Bad weather

Too windy weather forced us to change our plan: we left the Gulf of Lion and we are now sailing towards the Balearic margin.

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Sport onboard

Some physical exercices are needed to survive one month on the ship.

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Pilot whales on starboard

More than 30 black pilot whales escorted us until our next heat-flow station.

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Fluids extraction from cores

Fluids are regularly extracted along each section of all cores.

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Heat-flow measurements

First heat-flow measurements in the Gulf of Lion. The probe is put into water.

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Security meeting

Fashion-day on the Atalante: all scientifics try on the magnificent survival suit.

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Mobilisation

Participants arrived onboard and worked on the desk to prepare all scientific tools... under the watchful eye of the chief!

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Our travel to Toulon

Four of us went today from Paris to Toulon. Tomorrow morning we will go on the research vessel L'Atalante. The others will arrive tomorrow by plane and will join us in the afternoon.

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Preparation of our heat flow probe

We spend several days in St-Maur and at Ifremer Brest for preparing our heat flow probe.

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