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Cyprus News Agency: News in English, 09-10-20
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[01] MERIAN - RESEARCH VESSEL - CYPRUS
[01] MERIAN - RESEARCH VESSEL - CYPRUS
The German research vessel Maria S. MERIAN will visit for the first
time the port of Limassol, which will be its main berth for a number of
subsequent cruises from October 2009 to May 2010. According to a press
release, scientists of the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
in Bremen, the University of Hamburg and their European colleagues
investigate the deep-sea of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea.
In the framework of their expedition, the German research vessel Maria
S. MERIAN visits for the first time the port of Limassol in Cyprus on
22 October 2009. The Maria S. MERIAN is one of the most modern
multidisciplinary vessels of the European research fleet.
The main research objective of the current expedition led by chief
scientists Dr. Dagmar Hainbucher (University of Hamburg) and Prof. Dr.
Antje Boetius (Max Planck Institute Bremen) is to understand the
dynamics of the Eastern Mediterranean Deep Sea, from climate change
effects on deep-water formation to the distribution of enigmatic
deep-sea ecosystems.
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