GANS

Gas Hydrates on the Norway - Barents Sea - Svalbard margin

 

 

Cruises

2010 

  • 19. - 28. June 2010: Cruise with R/V Jan Mayen to the Vestnesa, collecting two 3D high-resolution seismic cubes (P-cable)

2009

  • 01. - 11. August: Cruise with R/V Jan Mayen to the western Barents Sea, collecting 3D high-resolution seismic profiles (P-cable)
  • 20.-29. July: Cruise with R/V Jan Mayen along the western Svalbard continental margin. 

2008

  • 31. August - 02. September: Cruise with R/V Haakon Mosby to Vestnesta Ridge, western Svalbard margin, collecting gravity cores. Cruise report available. (Reference: Monsen, S., Vaular, E.N., Chen, Y., Haflidason, H., 2008. Marine Geological Cruise report from the Vestnesa Ridge. Report No. 100-04/08. Department of Earth Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, 16 pp.)
  • 28 July - 9 August: Cruise with R/V G.O Sars. During the cruise ROV-diving, sediment sampling and TOPAS profiling on the Vøring Plateau were performed. Cruise report available. (Reference: Haflidason, H., Hjelstuen, B.O., Monsen, S., Ekerhovd, M.B., Skaug, M., Alvheim, S., Vaular, E.N., Chen, Y., Steen, I.H., Daae, F.-L., Hocking, W., Todt, C., Cid, M., Portnova. D., 2008. Marine Geological Cruise Report from the Vøring Plateau. Report No. 100-03/08, Department of Earth Science & Centre of Geobiology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, 37 pp.)
  • 13 July - 26 July 2008: GANS cruise with R/V Jan Mayen to the Nyegga area, collecting 3D high-resolution seismic profiles. Cruise report availabe. (Reference: Buenz, S., Petersen, J., Inversen, S., Chand, S., Bialas, J., Rajan, A., Pless, G., Frantzen, J., Weibull, W., Poluboyarinov, M., Mandal, A., Tiwari, A. (2008). Gas hydrates and fluid fvents of the NBS-Margin. Nyegga - Northern Flank of Storegga Slide. Cruise report, University of Tromsø, 27 pp)

                                                                              Pictures from G.O. Sars cruise summer 2008

2007

  • 15 - 22 October :  Due to bad weather it was not possible to collect the planned cores  during the GANS cruise with R/V Jan Mayen to western Svalbard margin.
  • 22 July - 13 August: Cruise with R/V G.O Sars to the Vøring Plateau, collecting TOPAS high-resolution seismic profiles, multibeam echosounder data, and cores. Cruise report availabe (Reference: Haflidason, H., Hjelstuen, B.O., Nygård, A., Monsen, S., Mardal, I., Vaular, E.N., Johannessen, H.B., Chen, Y., Harrison, T., 2007. Marine Geological Cruise Report from Møre Margin, Vøring Plateau, Lofoten Basin and Andøya Channel. Report No. 100-07/01, Department of Earth Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, 113 pp)
  • 8 - 22 July:  Cruise with R/V Jan Mayen to the western Svalbard margin collecting 3D high resolution data. Cruise report available (Reference: Mienert, J., Bunz, S., Hustoft, S., Faverola, A.P., Perez-Barcia, C., Holbæk-Hansen, L.E., Sandaker, K., Robertsen, R., Thorstensen, L., Rasmussen, E., Frantzen, J.H.P., Weibull, W., Chand, S., 2007. Gas hydrates of the NBS-margin. Vestnesa Ridge. Petromaks-GANS Project. Cruise Report, Department of Geology, University of Tromsø, Norway, 26 pp)

 Pictures from G.O. Sars cruise summer 2007


2006

  • 16 - 26 november: The planned cruise to south Vøring Plateau with R/V G.O. Sars was cancelled due to bad weather.