RV METEOR expedition to underwater volcanoes west of Africa has started
16 January 2019
Since early January our marine geophysical working group investigates the Bathymetrists Seamounts ca. 500 km west of Sierra Leone / West Afrika with the German research vessel METEOR. We are accompanied by scientists from University of Kiel, the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry and the University of Athens. The expedition will end in Walvish Bay / Namibia. A press release can be found here, a video here.