CIESM Mediterranean Campaign Underway!

a pluri-disciplinary campaign of CIESM is now underway, until 31 July, in the Tyrrhenian Sea. This exploratory campaign - the first in 80 years ! - is taking place on board the Italian research vessel Universitatis which has been graciously loaned to CIESM with the support of the Italian Ministry of the Environment, CoNISMa and CNR. Following scientific consultations, we selected the deep south-Tyrrhenian Sea to analyse the physical and biological changes likely induced by the arrival of warmer/ saltier waters from the eastern Basin. This is completed by multi-beam mapping of the sea-floor. This cruise (CIESM-SUB1) is taking place with the participation of 15 leading researchers from nine Institutes. CIESM Press Officer, Siri Campbell, is on board to cover this event which renews with an ancient tradition initiated by CIESM in the 1920s: you can read her daily dispaches that bear the fresh, deliberately candid, outlook of a non-scientist on the usually closed world of oceanographers via our homepage at www.ciesm.org We hope to be able in coming years to set up an integrated system of similar campaigns around major scientific questions in poorly known areas of the Mediterranean Sea.

From: CIESM

I hope this is of your interest. Regards,

Jorge Brenner