How do we measure greenhouse gases in the ocean?
That was one of the main questions raised at a workshop, recently arranged by our …
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Aleksey Portnov defends thesis on permafrost
Congratulations to Dr. Portnov who recently defended his thesis Role of subsea permafrost and gas hydrate …
Field trip to Italy sparks scientific imagination
[types field=”Blogging from the field”][/types] Our early career scientists went recently on a field trip to …
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Methane observatories successfully deployed in the Arctic
Mysteries still abound about methane release from the ocean floor. Two state of the art …
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ScienceNordic: Heavy summer rain in Greenland speeds up ice melt
http://sciencenordic.com/heavy-summer-rain-greenland-speeds-ice-melt
The Guardian: Global warming is causing rain to melt the Greenland ice sheet
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2015/jul/14/global-warming-is-causing-rain-to-melt-the-greenland-ice-sheet
LiveScience: Colorful Arctic Animals Revealed in Thousands of Undersea Images
http://www.livescience.com/51423-arctic-methane-seeps-sea-creatures.html
CAGE installs new mass spectrometer
Tromsø will soon be one of few places in the world where scientists can analyze clumped …
CAGE director visits new laboratory in Trondheim
CAGE director Jürgen Mienert recently visited the new 2G Cryogen Magnetometer that is being installed by …
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The Power of Ice
Ice has weighed heavy on the Arctic for at least two million years. And now …
Exceptional view of deep Arctic Ocean methane seeps
Close to 30.000 high definition images of the deep Arctic Ocean floor were captured on a …
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Sinc: El metano del Ártico, ¿una amenaza incipiente?
http://www.agenciasinc.es/Reportajes/El-metano-del-Artico-una-amenaza-incipiente
Soma Baranwal receives award
Dr. Soma Baranwal has been selected as the recipient of the 2015 W. Storrs Cole …
Patton Wins Best Poster Award
Dr. Henry Patton, post doctoral researcher at CAGE, won an award for best poster at PAST …
Dr. William Ambrose appointed as Program Director at NSF
Dr. William Ambrose, who is currently a visiting scholar at CAGE, has been appointed as new …
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Annual report for 2014
We have had a busy year in 2014, with many achievements and discoveries. You can …
Ocean currents disturb methane-eating bacteria
Bacteria that feed on methane can control its concentration once it is released from the …
Are gas hydrates an environmentally sound energy source?
That is one of the questions that COST Action MIGRATE is trying to answer. Stefan …
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Science World Report: New Source of Methane Discovered in the Deep Ocean
http://www.scienceworldreport.com/articles/24407/20150414/new-source-methane-discovered-deep-ocean.htm
Daily Mail: Will methane in the Arctic speed up global warming?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3039247/Will-methane-Arctic-speed-global-warming-New-source-gas-North-Pole-thought.html
Deutschlandfunk: Treibhausgas – Neue entdeckte Methanquelle in der Arktis
http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/treibhausgas-neue-entdeckte-methanquelle-in-der-arktis.676.de.html?dram:article_id=317408
CAGE is partner in new climate research school
Norwegian Research Council supports the national climate research school, CHESS, with over 2,5 million Euro. The …
New source of methane discovered in the Arctic Ocean
A reservoir of abiotic methane has been discovered in the Arctic Ocean. This means that …
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Blog: Measuring greenhouse gases in the Arctic
Our post. doc Anna Silyakova spent six weeks frozen into an ice floe in the …
Ezat wins award
Mohamed Ezat, PhD student at CAGE, recently won an award for best student lecture at …
Frozen – a story of groundbreaking research in the Arctic Ocean
Dr. Anna Silyakova will spend six weeks frozen into Arctic sea ice on board Research Vessel Lance. Her goal is to …
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Methane seepage from Arctic seabed occurring for millions of years
Natural seepage of methane offshore the Arctic archipelago Svalbard has been occurring periodically for at …
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Collaboration provides fresh view of the Arctic Ocean floor
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is famous for its development of groundbreaking technology for ocean research. …
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Visit from our Advisory Board
Advisory Board for CAGE is composed by accomplished international scientists. Yesterday three of them visited …
Scientists intrigued by a unique volcano on the ocean floor
Norway has two active volcanoes. One is the northernmost subaerial volcano in the world, Beerenberg …
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Methane is leaking from permafrost offshore Siberia
The magnificent images of a crater on Yamal Peninsula, caused by collapsing permafrost, have become …
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Methane flares in the Arctic dwarf the Golden Gate Bridge
Methane gas flares, up to 800 meters high, rise from the Arctic Ocean floor. That …
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Surface water conditions and calcium carbonate preservation in the Fram Strait during marine isotope stage 2, 28.8–15.4 kyr
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2012PA002448/abstract K. Zamelczyk, T. L. Rasmussen, K. Husum, F. Godtliebsen and M. Hald
Labyrint: Hvorfor valgte du leirevulkaner?
http://uit.no/ressurs/uit/mediebok/Labyrint0314/index.html#42
Labyrint: Utforsker vulkanenes hemmeligheter
http://uit.no/ressurs/uit/mediebok/Labyrint0314/index.html#36
The emergence of modern sea ice cover in the Arctic Ocean
http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2014/141128/ncomms6608/full/ncomms6608.html Jochen Knies, Patricia Cabedo-Sanz, Simon T. Belt, Soma Baranwal, Susanne Fietz and Antoni Rosell-Melé
Temporal and spatial structure of multi-millennial temperature changes at high latitudes during the Last Interglacial
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027737911400338 Emilie Capron , Aline Govin, Emma J. Stone, Valérie Masson-Delmotte, Stefan Mulitza, Bette Otto-Bliesner, Tine L. Rasmussen, Louise C. Sime, Claire Waelbroeck, Eric W. …
ScienceDaily: Emergence of modern sea ice in Arctic Ocean, 2.6 million years ago
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/11/141128080654.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Fearth_climate+%28Earth+%26+Climate+News+–+ScienceDaily%29
North Atlantic marine radiocarbon reservoir ages through Heinrich event H4: a new method for marine age model construction
http://sp.lyellcollection.org/content/early/2014/02/05/SP398.2.abstract?rss=1 Jesper Olsen, Tine L. Rasmussen and Paula J. Reimer
The emergence of modern sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, 2.6 million years ago
“We have not seen an ice free period in the Arctic Ocean for 2,6 million …
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Panieri giving talk at The Niels Bohr Institute
Associate Professor Giuliana Panieri has been invited to the internationally acclaimed research institution, Niels Bohr …
Carbon isotope (δ13C) excursions suggest times of major methane release during the last 14 ka in Fram Strait, the deep-water gateway to the Arctic (2014)
http://www.clim-past-discuss.net/10/4191/2014/cpd-10-4191-2014.html C. Consolaro, T. L. Rasmussen, G. Panieri, J. Mienert, S. Bünz, and K. Sztybor
Constraints on the dynamics of pockmarks in the SW Barents Sea: Evidence from gravity coring and high-resolution, shallow seismic profiles (2014)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025322714001947 M. Pau , Ø. Hammer, S. Chand
Modeling the evolution of climate-sensitive Arctic subsea permafrost in regions of extensive gas expulsion at the West Yamal shelf. (2014)
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2014JG002685/abstract Alexey Portnov, Jurgen Mienert, and Pavel Serov.
Offshore permafrost decay and massive seabed methane escape in water depths >20 m at the South Kara Sea shelf (2013)
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/grl.50735/abstract Alexey Portnov, Andrew J. Smith, Jürgen Mienert, Georgy Cherkashov, Pavel Rekant, Peter Semenov, Pavel Serov and Boris Vanshtein.
The evolution of methane vents that pierce the hydrate stability zone in the world’s oceans (2014)
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2013JB010686/abstract Andrew J. Smith, Peter B. Flemings, Xiaoli Liu and Kristopher Darnell.
Meet our little ROV helper
This summer CAGE scientists picked up methane-derived rocks from the ocean floor, using a remotely …
Teknisk Ukeblad: Nye sensorstasjoner skal overvåke metanutslipp på havbunnen i Arktis
http://www.tu.no/industri/2014/10/14/nye-sensorstasjoner-skal-overvake-metanutslipp-pa-havbunnen-i-arktis
Nord24: – Dette er ikke noe en kjøper på Biltema, for å si det slik.
http://www.nord24.no/nyheter/article7633068.ece
Building state of the art ocean observatories
The technology company Kongsberg Maritime is building two ocean observatories for CAGE. Observatories will be …
CAGE elected to host international conference
This years conference on gas in marine sediments (GIMS12) in Taiwan was successful for two …
Søndagsrevyen – Frykter konsekvenser av metanutslipp
http://tv.nrk.no/serie/dagsrevyen/NNFA03091414/14-09-2014#t=34m5s
The Gulf Stream kept going during the last Ice Age
The warm Atlantic water continued to flow into the icy Nordic seas during the coldest …
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Members of Norwegian Parliament visit CAGE
Several members of the Norwegian Parliament attended a local government conference in Tromsø this weekend. …
Subsurface Fluid Flow and Surface Anomalies at Veslemøy high, SW Barents Sea – What Do They Tell Us about Gas Hydrate Prospects in Barents Sea? (2014)
http://www.searchanddiscovery.com/abstracts/html/2013/90177arctic/abstracts/chand.htm Shyam Chand
Constraints on the dynamics of pockmarks in the SW Barents Sea: Evidence from gravity coring and high-resolution, shallow seismic profiles (2014)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002532271400194 M. Pau // Ø. Hammer // S. Chand
Record of methane emissions from the West Svalbard continental margin during the last 23.500 yrs revealed by δ13C of benthic foraminifera (2014)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921818114001799# Giuliana Panieri, Rachael H. James, Angelo Camerlenghi, Graham K. Westbrook, Chiara Consolaro, Isabel Cacho, Valentina Cesari, Cristina Sanchez Cervera.
Character of seismic motion at a location of a gas hydrate-bearing mud volcano on the SW Barents Sea margin (2014)
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2014JB010990/abstract Peter Franek, Jürgen Mienert, Stefan Buenz, and Louis Géli
Persistent intermediate water warming during cold stadials in the southeastern Nordic seas during the past 65.k.y. (2014)
http://geology.geoscienceworld.org/content/early/2014/06/26/G35579.1.full.pdf+html Mohamed M. Ezat, Tine L. Rasmussen and Jeroen Groeneveld