What is Ifremer and what does it do in SUMMER?
Ifremer, the French research institute for the exploitation of the sea, contributes, through its work and expertise, to the knowledge of the oceans and their resources, the monitoring of the marine and coastal environments [...]
Assessment of mesopelagic fauna from cabled fjord-observatories
The mesopelagic zone by definition is out of reach for most types of direct observation. Yet, Norwegian fjords offer unique opportunities facilitating mesopelagic studies. They are deep, house mesopelagic fauna, and are easily accessible. [...]
The website by our “sister project” MEESO is up!
The website by our "sister project" MEESO is up! Visit it here! The MEESO research project aims at filling in major knowledge gaps on mesopelagic organisms living deep in the oceans and at evaluating [...]
The SUMMERH2020 Annual General Meeting for the interdisciplinary project
The SUMMERH2020 annual meeting for the interdisciplinary project on mesopelagic sustainable fishing is underway - this time on Microsoft Teams, coordinated by AZTI, Raul Prellezo and Xabier Irigoien. Due to covid-19 restrictions we could [...]
Pumping carbon
The ocean plays a major role in regulating the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide can be dissolved in seawater and carried to depth by ocean currents (the solubility carbon pump) [...]
New paper linked to SUMMER H2020 published “Variability in Water-Column Respiration and Its Dependence on Organic Carbon Sources in the Canary Current Upwelling Region”
Javier Arístegui, together with Montero, M. F., Hernández-Hernández, N., Alonso-González, I. J., Baltar, F., Calleja, M. L., & Duarte, C. M. (2020) have written and published the paper: "Variability in water-column respiration and its [...]
News Archive
Delayed SUMMER studies in the North East Atlantic and the Mediterranean
This month, May 2020, the St Andrews team was supposed to be in the final stages of preparation for going to sea on the SUMMER voyage on the Spanish Research Vessel Sarmiento de Gamboa [...]
Newest article about the Twilight Zone – also in Nature
© scaliger / Adobe Stock Some of the the SUMMER participants - Adrian Martin, Xabier Irigoien and Sari Giering, are authors on a newly hot-off-the-press article in Nature on the Twilight Zone [...]
Mesopelagic species as Omega-3 fatty acid providers
Omega-3 (Docosahexaenoic acid -DHA- and eicosapentaenoic acid -EPA-) provides benefits on health for humans and animals in general. EPA and DHA are essential for proper fetal development and healthy aging. Global recommendation for these [...]
Twilight Zone Article in Nature
Photo credit: Adobe stock (standard license) In February 2020, an article about ongoing efforts to do research on the importance of the mesopelagic zone - or the Twilight Zone - was published [...]
THE COLOUR OF MESOPELAGIC SPECIES
SINTEF Ocean have, and have had projects on mesopelagic species, such as the EU-projects MEESO and SUMMER. The work has included, among other things, analysis on chemical composition of different mesopelagic species, and the [...]
MESOPELAGIC SPECIES
The mesopelagic ecosystem will equip at depths of between 200 and 1000 meters, and the amount of mesopelagic fish species in this zone is estimated to be in the order of billions of tonnes. [...]
TWILIGHT ZONE
What is the mesopelagic zone you may wonder? In short, the mesopelagic zone is a region of the ocean with insufficient light for photosynthesis, but sufficient for vision (200-1000 m depth). It is part [...]
SUMMER involved in JETZON
JETZON (Joint Exploration of the Twilight Zone Ocean Network) is an international group set up to address the question: how can we as an international scientific community obtain the greatest insight into the Twilight [...]
Where can you find us online?
SUMMER has the following accounts on social media platforms and we hope you will like and follow and share this with your contacts and colleagues: Twitter: https://twitter.com/summerh2020 — our name is @summerh2020 and please also here, [...]
SUMMER H2020
SUMMER's ambition is to obtain the information vital for a sustainable use of ocean resources through a comprehensive understanding of ocean functioning across its full depth. SUMMER will establish a protocol to accurately estimate [...]