pictures - SponGES

The Annual Open Day event at CIIMAR, on September 21, 2019. Read about it here.

The 2019 Annual Open Day event at CIIMAR — Amazing deep-sea explorer LEGO set!

The SponGES touring exhibition in the Azores, from June to Ocotber 2019.

The SponGES touring exhibition in Gijón, 19-23 November 2018. Read the full story here.

SponGES touring exhibition Gijón — Getting ready

SponGES presenting at the European Parliament on November 6th, 2018. Read the full story here.

European Parliament SponGES event — Announcing the event

At the 4th Intl. Workshop on taxonomy of Atlanto-Mediterranean deep-sea and cave sponges. Read the full story here.

Taxonomy workshop, Marseille, Zootaxa, SponGES — The latest Zootaxa issue is dedicated to Jean Vacelet and Klaus Rützler

Field work – summer 2018! Snapshots from our work in the North Atlantic.

Bristol Uni, ICY-LAB, Arctic — Team members from Bristol University explored Greenalnd’s ices to understand more about geochemical cycles of the North Atlantic and the Arctic

ICY-LAB, Bristol Uni, Arctic — Team members from Bristol University explored Greenalnd’s ices to understand more about geochemical cycles of the North Atlantic and the Arctic

IMAR, Azores, SponGES — Lot of deep-sea exploration has gone on in the Azores!

IMAR, Pheronema, SponGES, Azores — Amazing Pheronema aggregations in the depths of the Azores

Hudson RV, SponGES — Life on the Hudson RV, using the box corer to sample sediment, sponges and associated fauna from Vazella grounds

GO SARS, SponGES — The G.O. SARS is ready to take the sea! It will explore the Schultz Massif along the Arctic Mid-Atlantic ridge

SponGES, MERCES and Atlas – together at the World Conference on Marine Biodiversity 2018! Read the full story here.

SponGES, MERCES, Atlas, WCMB2018 — Group picture at the WCMB2018

Looking for fossil Geodia in the immense paleontology collections at the Natural History Museum in London, with Paco Cardenas, Ana Riesgo and Vassia Koutsouveli. The full story is here. The copyright in the photographs taken by Paco Cardenas during his visit the NHM on 5/12/2017 and assigned to the Museum (© The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London, or © NHM, London), is licensed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution Licence 4.0 International Licence (CC-BY). See here for the full legal code.

SponGES fossil work NHM UU — Studying sponge fossils and sections of fossils

A rich photogallery from the 2017 G.O. Sars research cruise – our researchers have studied very different deep-water sponge grounds, ranging from the 1300 m deep Norwegian fjords, the coral-associated grounds on the outer continental shelf, the Barents Sea, and to depths down to 3000 m along the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge. Read the report here.

#SponGES #deepsea #cruise — The G.O. Sars 2017 cruise is over – thanks everybody!!

All operations are carefully supervised in the control room

Snapshots from our participation to the three-day High-Level Ministerial and Scientific Event A New Era of Blue Enlightenment and culminating with the landmark signature of the Statement on Atlantic Research and Innovation Cooperation (Thursday 13th July, at Bélem Tower – Lisbon, Portugal), launching the South Atlantic Research and Innovation Flagship Initiative between the EU, Brazil and South Africa. Read the full story here.

#SponGES #EU #Brazil #SouthAfrica — A New Era of Blue Enlightenment

#EU #Brazil #SouthAfrica #AtlanticStatement — The Statement on Atlantic Research and Innovation Cooperation is being signed

#EU #SouthAfrica #Brazil #AtlanticOcean — Signatures on the Statement on Atlantic Research and Innovation Cooperation

#SponGES #ATLAS #MERCES — Representatives of “sister projects” SponGES, ATLAS and MERCES at the event

#SponGES #project #showcase — Our Scientific Project Manager Joana Xavier about SponGES on Friday

#KarmenuVella #Statement — A quote by Karmenu Villa on linkages between initiatives

#BélemTower #Lisbon #Portugal — The Bélem Tower, where the Statement was signed

SponGES at the 10th World Sponge Conference! (read short summary here, or check #WorldSponge10 on Twitter for more info).

#WorldSponge10 Book of Abstracts #sponge — cover of the 10th World Sponge Conference book of abstracts

#WorldSponge10 auditorium #sponge — Overview of the auditorium – talking deep-sea sponges!

#WorldSponge10 end — Closing the 10th World Sponge Conference – see you in Bali!

#WorldSponge10 #SponGES — Our coordinator Hans Tore Rapp talks about SponGES

#WorldSponge10 glass #sponges — Taxonomy of glass sponges – the workshop

#WorldSponge10 #Sponges #AORA — At the workshop on transatlantic cooperation for deep-sea research

How to pulverize a deep-sea sponge? This gallery shows Master student Patryk Nilsson (Uppsala University – Division of Pharmacognosy, have a look at the sponges’ natural products group site!) on his quest to explore secondary metabolites of Geodia hentscheli (this very specimen was sampled on the Schultz Massive Seamount in the Greenland Sea). It all culminated in the last picture: on the right the beautiful yellow extraction of G. hentscheli – on the left, other Master students made the same extraction for a different yet closely related sponge species, Geodia barretti. You can already see: different color = different chemistry. However, rewind: what was the first step to get there? Reduce the sponge into a fine, dry powder! Not really an easy task…