News
Updates from the EO group.
The DFG project PycnMIX has been approved for funding. This is an exciting new project where we’ll push the limits of observational capabilities of gliders–using under-ice navigation for Seagliders and a method to derive turbulent dissipation from standard gliders using the glider flight model. This is a collaboration with Alberto Naveira Garabato (Univ Southampton) with sea trials starting in 2025 and the major field campaign in the Southern Ocean in 2026.
The CLICCS2 Hamburg Cluster of Excellence was approved for funding by the DFG. News here including further links. The Experimental Oceanography group will be contributing most strongly in the “Natural Dynamics” theme of the project, to investigate how small scale processes influence the large-scale ocean circulation.
The Experimental Oceanography group is hiring a seagoing technician at the University Hamburg (deadline to apply: 4 April 2025). Please contact Eleanor with any questions or to discuss.
To apply, please see the advert on the University webpage: https://bit.ly/seagoing-technician
The AEI-DFG DS-MIXSED project (Denmark Strait - Mixing and Sediment Dynamics) will be starting in 2025 with collaborators David Amblas, Anna Sanchez, Wilken-Jon von Appen and Lola Perez Hernandez. This is a 3-year project to study mixing in the Denmark Strait overflow waters downstream of Denmark Strait, and the influence of currents on seabed morphology (and vice versa). More information will be forthcoming in the new year.
The DS2 mooring was successfully redeployed in the Denmark Strait by Andreas and Chiara onboard the Sarmiento de Gamboa. The Denmark Strait mooring array is maintained by us and Andreas Macrander at the Marine & Freshwater Research Institute of Iceland.
Eleanor attended an AAORIA and Partnership for Atlantic Cooperation meeting in Washington DC in August 2024. The objective of the workshop - with attendees from the USA, UK, Germany, France, Norway, Denmark, South Africa, Kenya, Argentina, Brazil and elsewhere - was to identify priority action areas for AAORIA.
