CICESE aquires measuring system

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.

Data management at the Gakkel ridge

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.

Web portal DSHIP-Devices.de

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.