{"id":17563,"date":"2024-12-13T19:34:18","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T18:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mio.osupytheas.fr\/?p=17563"},"modified":"2024-12-17T13:13:36","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T12:13:36","slug":"hope-05-5eme-mission-hope-a-bord-du-n-o-antea-nouvelles-depuis-noumea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mio.osupytheas.fr\/en\/hope-05-5th-hope-mission-aboard-the-n-o-antea-news-from-noumea\/","title":{"rendered":"HOPE-05: 5th HOPE mission aboard the N\/O Antea - News from Noum\u00e9a"},"content":{"rendered":"
The project HOPE<\/em> continues to move forward with the 5th mission of 2024, carried out in November off the coast of New Caledonia.<\/p> During this mission, the team relieved, refitted and re-deployed the EXPORT-LINE, a 700 m long line anchored from the ocean floor to the surface. Instrumented with 32 sensors and collectors, it samples the marine snow at strategic depths every 2 days to quantify the carbon captured and understand the environmental conditions influencing this process. The operation was a success.<\/p> Anchored in the South Pacific since March 2024, the EXPORT-LINE, which is surveyed every three months, is a delicate operation carried out by a team of 9 researchers and engineers, as well as 13 sailors aboard the FOF M\/O Antea. This series of campaigns is part of the ERC HOPE project on the role of diazotrophs in the biological carbon pump.<\/p> The EXPORT-LINE works in tandem with the HOPE'ORTUNITY intelligent buoy, which is equipped with automated systems that measure the physical and biological parameters of the surface ocean (0-100 m) every 4 hours, in particular the biodiversity of the plankton responsible for carbon sequestration.<\/p> The next 16-day mission will take place in February 2025, to survey the EXPORT-LINE and study very high-frequency processes at the HOPE'ORTUNITY buoy with our American and Pacific colleagues.<\/p>Photo credit: S. Bonnet<\/h6>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t