For the Alfred-Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven we worked at, with and in the polar research aircrafts Polar 5 and Polar 6 throughout the years 2008 to 2016. We planned, documented, supervised and/or did technical installations of scientific equipment and experiments. Read more
FS Heincke and FS Maya II are research ships of AWI which have a large range of different scientific sonars. Both have multi-beam echo sounders, Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) and other multi frequency echosounders. On behalf of the AWI we support many of those systems which means system maintenance and the education and the support of their users.
On RV FS Heincke we take care of the:
Before the campaigns we offer user trainings. Please contact us duly before your cruise to make an appointment.
FIELAX short manuals and manufacturer's documentation is available in the FS Heincke - Geräteakte.
On RV Mya II we take care of the:
Please contact us for a user training. and for FIELAX short manuals and manufacturer's documentation of the instruments.
The 'Centro de Investigacion Cientifica y de Education superior de Ensenada Baja California' (CICESE) in Mexico has purchased a complete heat flow measuring system from FIELAX. The HeatFlowProbe was dispatched today. The picture shows the strength member on its rigging trolleys during loading in a 40'-container. The HeatFlow probe has an active length of 6m (resulting in a total length of about 7,5m) to penetrate through the seasonally influenced upper sediment layers to determine the pure geothermal heat flow.
For searching a plume two colleagues attended the Polarstern cruise PS86 to the Arctic. The objective was to find hot outflows from the crust at the Gakkel ridge. We acquired and post-processed bathymetry data from a multibeam echosounder und created several maps for planning and forecasting ice coverage in the research area. The contractor was the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen.
For the Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung we developed a web-based platform for a unified naming of scientific device types used on German research vessels. Device types may be added and updated, may be reviewed and applied by curators and finally downloaded as XML lists from the research vessels themselves for speaking a unique "language". The project was implemented with the PHP Symfony framework and MySQL database.