BIOGEOCHEMICAL OCEAN RESEARCH EXPEDITIONS

FS VICTOR HENSEN

How are seasonal formations of pycnoclines (thermoclines and haloclines), upwelling and downwelling areas, thermohaline circulation patterns, nearshore vertical mixing zones distribution and offshore density stratified systems associated with larval fish  transport and successful recruitment?

CSS HUDSON

What is the role of mesozooplankton in the transfer of organic material and carbondioxide from the euphotic zone – with highest biomass production – to the deep sea? How do global scale processes control time-varying fluxes of carbon and associated biogenic elements - and develop a capability to predict the response of oceanic biogeochemical processes to anthropogenic perturbations, in particular those related to global climate change?

RV SEWARD JOHNSON

What is the biodiversity of benthic organisms living far beyond the shallow continental shelf in depth up to 3,000 feet? How can the Johnson-Sea-Link II (JSL), a sophisticated and highly maneuverable, manned submersible contribute to this research of biomass production in the hidden depths of the Bahamas Archipelago?

DR ALSHUTH'S OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH IN THE ATLANTIC OCEAN & NORTH SEA