July 2014 – OGS offshore Ireland for BRITICE-CHRONO campaign

OGS is taking part in the BRITICE-CHRONO campaign of the r/v James Cook, from 16 July to 25 August. OGS researcher Daniel Praeg is aboard for the first leg of the campaign, which will sail from Southampton to circumnavigate the island of Ireland, investigating submerged glacial landscapes in the Celtic Sea, Irish Sea and Atlantic continental shelf. The ship will acquire both high resolution geophysical data (multibeam seabed imagery, subbottom profiles) and sediment cores (using a 6 m vibrocorer and a 10 m piston corer).

OGS is a partner in BRITICE-CHRONO, an international project to reconstruct the pattern and timing of collapse of the last British-Irish Ice Sheet. The 5-year project represents a consortium of over 40 researchers - marine and terrestrial geologists together with ice sheet modellers - from Britain, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Canada, and Italy.

OGS partnership in BRITICE-CHRONO builds on the PNRA project IPY GLAMAR, which is investigating the glacial history of the Celtic Sea in collaboration with Irish and UK partners, and which took OGS to the Celtic Sea in March 2014 for the Irish-led GATEWAYS II campaign of the r/v Celtic Explorer.

The position of the r/v James Cook during the BRITICE-CHRONO campaign can be seen here.