ABRIC Project

Assessment of Bottom-trawling Resuspension Impacts in deep benthic Communities @ICMCSIC

[ABRIC Project @ABRICProject]

💡Did you know that #BlanesCanyon walls are covered with #corals and #gorgonians?

If you want to know more about this, don't miss the talk by Dr. Pere Puig Alenyà (Chief scientist of the @ABRICProject from @ICMCSIC ) and Xavier Domènech (manager of the #BlanesFishermenGuild)

[Marta Aloha @martaloha]

And the best part: the cruise in a minute! So many good memories and hard work!💪🏽

[Wieter Boone @BooneWieter]

Beautiful day onboard #RVGarciaDelCid @ICMCSIC for the Marine Robotics Team @VLIZnews! @FredFourie @KobusLangedock

All operations in Palamos Canyon done! Up to Cap De Creus for more!

@GRCGM @ABRICProject

[Geociències Marines @GRCGM]

Happy faces at the end of the ABRIC-FARDWO cruise onboard #RVGarciaDelCid 😃
A huge THANKS to the VLIZ Team (@VLIZnews) and their "toys" for making this happen, as well as to our colleagues at @ICMCSIC for their awesome support. We've got astonishing data, stay tuned! 😊

[Wieter Boone @BooneWieter]

#AUV Barabas was the workhorse of our 10 day cruise! 190 km travelled and 2164 min on mission during 12 dives in Cap de Creus, Palamos and Blanes Canyons. Promising first results.. Thanks to great crew of #RVGarciaDelCid (@utm_csic), In team:
@GRCGM @ICMCSIC @VLIZnews

[ABRIC Project @ABRICProject]

Part of our on-going research, led by @martaloha! 👇

[Ryan Institute @ University of Galway @RyanInstitute]

High-energy events such as #storms, and river floods often increase water turbidity and suspended sediment transport in #submarine canyons. @RyanInstitute @nuigalway report on this and possible future impacts of human activities on #waterbodies. Find 👉 https://t.co/ClpFcQRCRM

[ABRIC Project @ABRICProject]

Dr. Pere Puig talking about deep-sea benthic communities in #BlanesCanyon

[ABRIC Project @ABRICProject]

💡Did you know that #BlanesCanyon walls are covered with #corals and #gorgonians?

If you want to know more about this, don't miss the talk by Dr. Pere Puig Alenyà (Chief scientist of the @ABRICProject from @ICMCSIC ) and Xavier Domènech (manager of the #BlanesFishermenGuild)

[ABRIC Project @ABRICProject]

Mark it on your calendars!
📍 Confraria de Pescadors de Blanes
🗓️ 5th November 2021
⌚️ 7 p.m.

[ABRIC Project @ABRICProject]

Bottom trawling also affects submarine canyons in the Sicilian margin: sedimentation rates have increased since the onset of bottom trawling in these canyons by an order of magnitude!
New paper by researchers from our team: @paradiss1 @peremasque and more!

[Pere Masqué @peremasque]

New paper by ⁦Sarah Paradis @paradiss1⁩ Evidence of large increpases in sedimentation rates due to fish trawling in submarine canyons of the Gulf of Palermo (SW Mediterranean) https://t.co/ZCvk0AYRg7

[ABRIC Project @ABRICProject]

Interesting but complex question. We definitely need more research to properly answer this!

[MOSAIC @MOSAIC_ETH]

Submarine #canyons can serve as hotspot areas of sediment and organic carbon #accumulation, or as incinerators/bypass of sediment and organic carbon towards deeper environments (abyss/trenches/other)❓ 🤔 What do you think?
Shout-out to @INCISE_net community‼️📢

[MOSAIC @MOSAIC_ETH]

Let's celebrate this #WorldOceanDay recognizing that we have #OneOcean whose #seafloor is made up of a mosaic of OC concentrations.

[ABRIC Project @ABRICProject]

We had such a productive cruise 💪. Thank you very much to the crew of #RamonMargalef, scientists and technicians from @jmeesvliz, @GeologyUGent , @TeledyneMarine , @ICMCSIC , @trawledseas and @UMmalta for making this possible and for the great time on board 👏

[ABRIC Project @ABRICProject]

🛳️That's a wrap! These are the hightlights of #ABRIC3cruise:
✅#Mapped a surface around 5x Barcelona
✅Registered almost 140 km of high-resolution #seismic data
✅Retrieved 35 m of #sediment using a #gravitycorer and 4 m with a #multicorer

[ABRIC Project @ABRICProject]

💡 For those who wonder, this is not an ordinary saw. This is a #ultrasoniccutter. It vibrates its blade at high frequency, and because of its movement, this device can easily cut the PVC tubes that hold the sediments inside, sharply and cleanly! 💪

[ABRIC Project @ABRICProject]

⛴️ #Day10 ...and last!
Hard work today on the R/V #RamonMargalef 💪
We retrieved a total of 4 #gravitycores!
Wanna know how we cut them before bringing them to the lab? Keep reading 🧐👀⬇️

[ABRIC Project @ABRICProject]

Hey, watch out your fingers 😂👇☝️
#funfacts

[ABRIC Project @ABRICProject]

🛳️#Day9: Sediment sampling!
Good start of the week 💪Today we've been retrieving sediment samples with a #gravitycorer.
⬇️Here, senior and young researchers are measuring, cutting, and labeling a #gravitycore. Everything's ready for lab analyses.

[ABRIC Project @ABRICProject]

💡A #parasound system is a high-resolution sediment #echosounder that is able to penetrate the topmost meters of the seafloor. It is used to identify and evaluate #lithological variations as well as sediment layers in deep-sea sediment sequences.

[ABRIC Project @ABRICProject]

🛳️#Day8: Parasound profiles!
You know it's Sunday when you feel that nice smell of 🥐🥐onboard! But hey, work doesn't stop 💪
Today, we've been acquiring #parasoundprofiles.
Wanna know more? Read below ⬇️👀

[TrawledSeas Project @trawledseas]

Sunday morning at R/V #RamonMargalef, nice sunrise and croissants 🥐 for breakfast! Now, acquiring paranound profiles!! @ABRICProject

[ABRIC Project @ABRICProject]

💡#Multibeam #echosounders emit sound waves in a fan shape beneath a ship's hull. The time it takes for the sound waves to bounce off the seabed and return to a receiver is used to determine water depth.

[ABRIC Project @ABRICProject]

⛴️#Day7: Bathymetry!
Today, we've been acquiring bathymetric data at the #BlanesCanyon with the #multibeam #ecosounder installed on the R/V #RamonMargalef.

🤔 Have you ever wondered how these #echosounders work? Read below 👀⬇️