St Andrews researchers in the Baltic Sea
Friday 28 September 2012
Dr William Austin (Reader in Physical Geography) and Dr David McCarthy (Research and Teaching Fellow in Physical Geography) recently joined a research cruise to the Baltic Sea abord the Swedish Research Vessel Skagerak, accompanying colleagues from the University of Lund, Sweden (Dr Helena Filipsson) and the University of Bremen, Germany (Dr Jeroen Groeneveld).
Work on the samples collected during this research cruise continues at the Scottish Oceans Institute, where the project team have been developing novel experimental systems to test for the effects of salinity changes on foraminifera living in the Baltic Sea. These experiments will yield new insights into global sea-level change when the Baltic Sea is drilled by the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (http://www.iodp.org/) in 2013.
The photograph below shows (L-R) David McCarthy, William Austin, Helena Filipsson processing seafloor sediment samples aboard the RV Skagerak during September 2012, Bornholm Basin (photograph credit: Jeroen Groeneveld).
