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2026
April
29.04.2026 11:15 - 12:15
DIAS Wild Wednesday: Deep Sea Mining – Perspectives and dilemmas
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March
Frank and Lisbeth are now departing from their cruise to the Atacama trench. In stead Hannah and Yick are boarding the Chinese vessel Tan Suo Yi Hao to take part in the next leg which is going back to China - but with a stop at the Mussau Trench in the Western Pacific. Here sediment samples will be collected and the profiling lander will be deployed from the submercible Fendouze
And a few more pictures from the first leg - the sub Fedouze, Lisbeth working in the glove bag, Frank and Lisbeth on deck, and Lisbeth together with two Chinese colleagues in the sub before a dive to 5800 m in the Atacama Trench!!
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2025
November
Wenjie on board the Japanese research ship Chikyu - a drilling vessel that can drill thousands of meter below the seabed.Wenjie has worked hard and will bring almost 1000 valuable sediments samples back to Denmark for further analysis.
September
HADAL retreat in Rønbjerg where we visited Dansk Skaldyrscenter - with talk by Jens Kjerulf and a tour at the center.
May
Hannah, Lisbeth and Frank before boarding the German research vessel Polarstern.They will be joining the cruise to the Fram strait for one month.
read the exiting report from the cruise...
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"!
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!
April
Open day at SDU - where Leah and Lisbeth introduced our HADAL Center and our work to the public.
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April
Retreat in Bremerhafen
Exiting talks and visit to AWI
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.
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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October
Listen to podcast with Ronnie Glud: "Den sidste hvide plet på vandkortet" i podcastserien Grundtanker fra Videnskabernes Selskab
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
June
Quite a lot of HADAL people participated in the ASLO - Aquatic sciences meeting 2023 in Mallorca
April
Finally our mooring system was deployed in the Japan Trench - a few years delayed because of corona!
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April
Leah and Lisbeth presented our HADAL center at the open day at SDU. Interesting day with lots of people asking lots of questions!
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!
October
4 HADAL members joined the Umitaka Cruise to the Japan Trench
You can see pictures from the cruise here:
August
2 members of the HADAL team joined the cruise with DSSV Pressure Drop to 11 deep trenches in the North Pacific Ocean
July
Check out what is happening on the Sonne Cruise to Aleutian Trench just now - where 3 HADAL people are participating:
June
2 HADAL people(C Schauberger and JP Balmonte ) took part in cruise in the North Atlantic with
American research vessel R/V Endeavor
June
Getting the mooring system for the Umitaka Cruise ready!
April
Exiting workshop in the HADAL group with colleagues from Austria
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
September
Container sent to Japan for our cruise! Which has unfortunately now been cancelled due to covid.
May
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
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
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
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...
