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.
In heavy seastate we attended Polarstern cruise ANT-29/8 to the southwest-indian ridge for acquiring sub-bottom sonar data as well as creation of data and maps.
Within a project about heating of marine sediments (MoniTherm, co-financed by the 'Europäischer Fonds für regionale Entwicklung'), FIELAX has developed a full model for the temperature field in and around submarine power cables. Read more