2025 February
Ronnie and Frank participating in cruise to Puysegur Trench in the South Tasmanian Sea with Chinese ship Tansuo-2. On board the submersible Fendouze has already made several dives into the Trench - and brought valuable sediments up from the deep - for this to be investigated further.
Also it has brought the new compact profiling lander from the HADAL group to several destinations in the trench - and the lander has successfully measured lots of oxygen profiles.
The submersible "Fendouze" - just before deployment
Picture of the compact HADAL profiling lander - taken from the inside of the submersible.
2024 August
Kazu, Morten, Frank and Sebastian ready to take the shinkansen. They will be going on a cruise on Umitaka Maru to retrieve a mooring system that has been collecting samples and lots of different parameters - for 1 ½ year in the Japanese Trench.
Very exiting - we wish them "good luck"!
2024 June
Follow HADAL members on cruise to the North Atlantic with German research vessel Polarstern
Follow the HADAL group onboard
Some of the HADAL people joining the cruise - just before heading up North!
2024 April
Open day at SDU - where Leah and Lisbeth introduced our HADAL Center and our work to the public.
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2024 April
Retreat in Bremerhafen
Exiting talks and visit to AWI
2024 April
Read the article "Tryk på livet" publiced as part of Ocean Decade/Havets tiår 2021-2030, an Unesco initiative to focus on ocean research and sustainability.
2024 February
Professor Ronnie Glud gave the Harald Sverdrup lecture at the AGU Ocean Science meeting
2023 October
Several members of the HADAL team participated in cruise with UMITAKA MARU to the Japan Trench and Sagami Bay
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2023 October
Listen to podcast with Ronnie Glud: "Den sidste hvide plet på vandkortet"
i podcastserien Grundtanker fra Videnskabernes Selskab
2023 June
Testing our new mini sediment lander in Odense Harbor before cruise to the Japan Trench
link to small video - from the Faculty of Science, SDU
2023 June
Quite a lot of HADAL people participated in the ASLO - Aquatic sciences meeting 2023 in Mallorca
2023 April
Finally our mooring system was deployed in the Japan Trench - a few years delayed because of corona!
Want to see more pictures? press here
2023 April
Leah and Lisbeth presented our HADAL center at the open day at SDU.
Interesting day with lots of people asking lots of questions!
2023 March
2nd price in the DGRF photo competition!!
Congratulation to Mathias Middelboe - who has taken the picture of a virus infected bacteria!
Read more about the picture and Mathias' research here
See interview on twitter here
2022 October + November
Cruise to South Sandwich Trench with R/V Polarstern
- wawes up to 12 m and extremely hard winds made this cruise a challenge! But we still managed - in the end to get some very interesting deep-sea sediment!
2022 October
4 HADAL members joined the Umitaka Cruise to the Japan Trench
You can see pictures from the cruise here:
2022 August
2 members of the HADAL team joined the cruise with DSSV Pressure Drop to 11 deep trenches in the North Pacific Ocean
2022 July
Check out what is happening on the Sonne Cruise to Aleutian Trench just now - where 3 HADAL people are participating:
2022 June
2 HADAL people(C Schauberger and JP Balmonte ) took part in cruise in the North Atlantic with
American research vessel R/V Endeavor
2022 June
Getting the mooring system for the Umitaka Cruise ready!
2022 April
Exiting workshop in the HADAL group with colleagues from Austria
2022 March
Visit from good colleagues from Bremen. Preparing landers for our next cruise to Aleutian Trench.
Thank you Axel and Volker - and Morten who took a small break from his maternity leave.
2021 September
Workshop in our hadal group
2021 September
Container sent to Japan for our cruise! Which has unfortunately now been cancelled due to covid
May 2022
Press release: Huge amounts of mercury found in the hadal trenches-
follow this link:
https://www.sdu.dk/da/nyheder/alle_artikler/2021/kviksoelv-hober-sig-op-i-dybhavsgravene
April 2021
A few days ago the "new" gamma counter arrived from Japan.
The lead shield weighing close to 2 ton has found its place in the hadal room, and the detector is ready to start measuring.
We can now measure a number of radionucleotides, including 210Pb and 137Cs.
Thereby we can quantify the age of sediment deposited in the seabed.
March 2021
Welcome to Kazumasa Oguri
Finaly, Kazumasa Oguri succeeded coming to Denmark with his family.
He should have joined us already 1st of February - but bureaucracy and corona made things difficult!
But now Kazumasa has said good-bye to Japan, where he worked at Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology for many years, and we are looking forward to getting him onboard.
January 2022
Just now we are in the process of establishing our new lander hall. Here we will store our equipment and prepare for cruises.
We are very exited to get going...
