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INFOMAR equipment ground truthing and calibrations survey in Galway Bay Test INFOMAR seabed survey equipment before deployment to full survey production.
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EnvironmentGMIT Galway Bay Student Training Survey. Train GMIT graduates in marine survey techniques.
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Deploy Galway Bay buoy in Spiddal test site. Deployment of oceanographic buoy in Galway Bay.
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Deployment of Wavebob ocean energy device in the Galway Bay test site. Deploy wave energy device for testing.
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EnvironmentNational Maritime College Ireland training survey for nautical graduates. Train nautical graduates in survey best practices.
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Every three years the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) coordinates a series of mackerel and horse mackerel egg surveys covering the eastern Atlantic from Gibraltar to the north coast of Scotland between January and July. The aim of this survey...
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EnvironmentThis survey was conducted on board the RV Celtic Explorer in 2007 by the Marine Institute (MI) as part of the annual groundfish survey to determine the distribution and abundance of commercial fish around Ireland. The Irish Groundfish Survey (IGFS) forms part of the...
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CE0810 (MeBo2008) Integrated National Strategic Deep-Water Seabed Drilling Campaign (INS DeepDrill)EnvironmentINS DeepDrill targets Ireland’s national strategic needs for deep-water seabed drilling and full core recovery at intermediate seabed penetration (down to 70m). This is accomplished through the mobilisation of the advanced portable seafloor drilling rig MeBo financially...
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This survey was conducted on board the RV Celtic Explorer in 2008 by the Marine Institute (MI) as part of the annual groundfish survey to determine the distribution and abundance of commercial fish around Ireland. The Irish Groundfish Survey (IGFS) forms part of the...
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Geological survey in the North Atlantic Ocean. Reconstruction of British-Irish Ice Sheet on Continental Shelf.
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EnvironmentMarine technology site survey Site survey in the Celtic Sea.
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Ulster University training survey in the North Atlantic Ocean. Integrated marine survey training for Ulster University graduates.
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This survey was conducted on board the RV Celtic Explorer in 2010 by the Marine Institute (MI) as part of the annual groundfish survey to determine the distribution and abundance of commercial fish around Ireland. The Irish Groundfish Survey (IGFS) forms part of the...
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CE10008 Glacial and non-glacial sediment transport in the Rockall Trough and Porcupine Bank (Nort...EnvironmentSubmarine landslides are the dominant sediment transport mechanism on continental margins, transferring volumes in the order of tens to hundreds of cubic kilometres from the continental slope to as far as the deep abyssal plain. Submarine landslides are known to be capable of...
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Every three years the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) coordinates a series of mackerel, Scomber scombrus, and horse mackerel, Trachurus trachurus, egg surveys covering the eastern Atlantic from Gibraltar to the north coast of Scotland between...
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Box coring, multicoring, vertical plankton tows and CTD casts and ROV ops during daytime during marine research cruise on board Celtic Explorer. (1) To identify and map benthic macrofauna in slope and canyon regions using conventional cores and ROV surveys (2) To...
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EnvironmentEvery three years the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) coordinates a series of mackerel, Scomber scombrus, and horse mackerel, Trachurus trachurus, egg surveys covering the eastern Atlantic from Gibraltar to the north coast of Scotland between...
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North Atlantic Ocean transect survey from Ireland to Canada. This multidisciplinary transatlantic survey took place in January 2011 on board the Marine Institute's R.V. Celtic Explorer. This research cruise is part of an annual survey that started in 2011 as a...
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CE11011 Seismic investigation of the geology and oceanography of the northern Rockall Trough surveyEnvironmentSeismic data acquisition, once streamer and airguns are deployed no deck hands are needed unless there is a problem and they need to be hauled in. The compressors will be operating in order to provide air to the guns but the watch scientist will be attending to that. We are...
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This survey was conducted on board the RV Celtic Explorer in 2011 by the Marine Institute (MI) as part of the annual groundfish survey to determine the distribution and abundance of commercial fish around Ireland. The Irish Groundfish Survey (IGFS) forms part of the...