Did you know that chemical compounds can also be fossilized? When it happens, they become evidence for the presence of particular organisms in ancient rocks. This is the lead for a new paper by Zumberge & colleagues in Nature … Read More
Summer is over – and it has been a long one! Have a look at some sunny moments in our photogallery.
Our team members Paco Cardenas (UU), Ana Riesgo and Vassia Koutsouveli (both NHM) have been through the immense sponge collections at the Natural History Museum in London in the frame of various SponGES research lines. One full day … Read More
The 2017 SponGES cruise onboard the research vessel G.O. Sars just successfully concluded. For three weeks, an international and well mixed team of SponGES researchers has worked 24/7 to study very different deep-water sponge grounds, ranging from the 1300 m … Read More
Project ICY-LAB (Isotope CYcling in the LABrador Sea), led by SponGES participant Kate Hendry (School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol), came to an end this week after a really successful trip, and now the research vessel, the RRS Discovery, … Read More
SponGES teams get together again for field work operations, as researchers from the Natural History Museum in London and from Uppsala University join staff at Bergen University. This deep-sea sponge sampling campaign, in the Norwegian fjords, is on September 8-9 … Read More
The CCGS Hudson left port in Halifax (Canada) on the 18th July for its 19th cruise of 2016. This cruise, a collaborative effort between the Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO), NEKTON and project SponGES will take us on a 4-week-long … Read More
The first deep-sea SponGES cruise has just started onboard the Norwegian research vessel G.O. Sars, departing from Tromsø. The cruise aims at filling in the gaps and deepening our understanding regarding the diversity, distribution, function as well as the goods … Read More
The SponGES field season just begun and our team from the Uppsala University went off in the Kosterfjord searching for the deep-sea sponge Geodia barretti. The Kosterfjord is part of the Kosterhavet National Park, the first Swedish marine national park … Read More