In September, Russia’s largest Research Vessel set sail from the White Sea port of Archangelsk for a 40 day expedition to investigate one of the biggest open challenges in climate change science; understanding subsea and coastal permafrost thawing, hydrate collapse and the processes that result in releases of potent greenhouse gases such as methane, carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide on the world’s largest and most remote ocean shelf, the East Siberian Arctic Ocean Shelf.
The scientific crew featured 13 non-Russian Scientists, including Badminton Alumnae Dr Amelia Davies! Dr Davies completed her PhD in Imperial College London centring around isotopic clumping in carbonate rocks and now heads up Stockholm University co-ordination for “work package” methane, focusing on characterization of methane released from thawing permafrost.
The cruise track of the expedition stretched across the entire Arctic Rim on the Eurasian margin (along Russia’s Arctic coast north of Siberia) stopping at many locations on route to take samples from the water, air and sea floor.
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