Past Cruises
Nine
international IMAGES coring cruises were completed between 1995 and 2002
on the R/V Marion Dufresne, which is operated by the IFRTP.
Below the maps you find information about all past cruises as well as
maps and reports for download.
Klick on a label in the maps in order to jump directly to the related cruise.
1. North Atlantik, Carribean, North American Margin
Three
cruises were completed in the North Atlantic in 1995,1999,
and 2003.
In 2002, IMAGES investigated the eastern north
Pacific margin and the Carribean Waters.
2. Pacific, Indian Ocean, Southern Ocean, South African Margin
In
1997, 1998 and
2001 IMAGES cruises operated in the Indonesian
Waters and South China Sea.
In 2001 and 2002,
the North Pacific was visited for coring operations. A cruise in 1996
took cores
along the African Margin and in 2000 some cores
were taken in the northern Indian Ocean.
In 2003, IMAGES went to the Southern Ocean (Terre Adelie)
and the Great Australian Bight.
3. Information, Maps and Reports of IMAGES cruises
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Carribean/North Atlantic : Port-of-Spain—Fortalezza—Miami—Baltimore—Brest Chief Scientist: Carlo Laj Cruise Report available at the IMAGES office as Book or CD |
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PICASSO Maps
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May/June
20003
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IMAGES X, 2003 "CADO/AUSCAN"
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Southern Ocean/Great Australian Bight: Freemantle—Hobart—Terre Adelie(Antarctica)—Hobart—Freemantle Chief Scientists: Elisabeth Michel, Peter Hill Cruise Report in Prep |
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CADO |
CADO
(Coring Adelie Diatom oozes) 21.01.2003—17.02.2003 incl. oceanographic program OIZO Website
(CAP-Sciences) about the cruise (French language)
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AUSCAN |
AUSCAN
(Scanning Australian Canyons) 18.02.2003—05.03.2003
Website
(National Oceans Office Australia) about the cruise (English language) |
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Carribean Waters. Cancun—Tampa—Belem Chief Scientists: Laurent Labeyrie, Viviane Bout-Roumazeilles Cruise Report in Print
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West-American Margin: Vancouver—San Diego—Panama—(Cancun) Chief Scientist: Luc Beaufort, CEREGE, Aix-en-Provence Cruise Report available at the IMAGES Office Cruise Report in PDF-Format (150 MB) |
Click on the map for a larger version, or open the high-resolution PDF-file (1.5 MB) and save it to your harddisk
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Indonesian Waters, South-China Sea, Sea of Ochotsk, Emperor Sea Mounts Chief Scientists: Franck Bassinot, Agnes Baltzer Cruise Report out of stock. The core documentation of Leg 1 and Leg 2 is available as PDF-Document: Summary
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Colombo, Sri Lanka, Oman
Chief
Scientists: Hartmut Schulz
Shipboard report not yet available
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Chief
scientists: Elisabeth Michel, Rainer Zahn, Claude Hillaire-Marcel, Jean
Louis Turon, Laurent Labeyrie, Eystein Jansen,
Anne Jennings, and Nicolas Thouveny . Introductionary chapter of the cruise report as PDF-document Printed Shipboard Report avqailable from IPEV and the IMAGES Office Click on the map for a larger version
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Indonesian Archipelago, western Pacific and East China Sea.
Chief scientists:
Franck Bassinot, François Guichard and Luc Beaufort
Shipboard report not yet available
IPHIS I&II: South of Australia and south-north transect from New Zealand to China Sea.
Chief scientists:
Elisabeth Michel, J. L. Turon, Luc Beaufort
Shipboard report not yet available
NAUSICAA: Namibia Angola upwelling system and Indian/Atlantic connection.
Chief scientist:
Philippe Bertrand
Shipboard report available.
MD 101; North Atlantic Ocean and Norwegian sea.
Chief scientists:
Y. Balut, F. Bassinot, Y. Lancelot, L. Labeyrie, and J. L. Turon
Shipboard report available - contact F. Bassinot