SponGES teams get together again for field work operations, as researchers from the Natural History Museum in London and from Uppsala University join staff at Bergen University. This deep-sea sponge sampling campaign, in the Norwegian fjords, is on September 8-9 2016.
Sunny morning before sailing, SponGES researchers ready to sample Porifera in the deep-sea
SponGES group picture & ready to go!
Preparing the SponGES lab in the Norwegian fjords
Pipettes, tubes and vials – all in order for deep-sea Porifera
First deep-sea sponge samples arrive on board
Getting rid of sediments is the first step for SponGES researchers
One large deep-sea sponge just taken aboard for the SponGES EU project
Tagging deep-sea sponge samples as they come aboard
Buckets with different deep-sea sponge samples await for processing
SponGES researchers ready to process samples of deep-sea Porifera
Researchers from the EU project SponGES process deep-sea samples
Sunset on Norwegian fjords after a day of work