Scavenger Lander Cruise Preparation, Askøy, Norway.

Kathy Dunlop, Mark Berry and Leon Pedersen prepare the benthic chamber lander for deployments as a baited scavenger lander.  The scavenger lander will be tested next week in Lurefjorden and also used as part of a study to examine the affect of fjord water depth on scavenger jelly-fall feeding dynamics. 

Lander floats being checked to ensure no damage    

Lander weight lifting 

A useful helper stops by

 

The lander being assembled 

Boxcoring, Handangerfjorden.

 

This time the JellyFarm team were on there way to Hadangerfjorden collecting box cores at 380 m onboard the RV Solvik. 

Morning in Hadangerfjorden

Multicores were collected from the boxcores to set up an experiment in the laboratory at IRIS to examine the effect of jelly-fall decompostion on sediment ammonium and sulphate levels.  This ties into Workpackage 5 to study scavenging processes at jelly-falls.  This experiment will enable us to determin if toxic levels of ammounium and sulphates produced by jelly-fall decomposition may deter scavengers from removing jelly-falls.

This trip to Hadangerfjorden allowed us to try out some of the improvements to the design that Captain Leon had made to the boxcore. 

Bringing the boxcorer on deck

Hoping for a good boxcore