Funded Research Proposals now active in the Arabian Sea
1) Benthic geochemistry-biogeochemistry cruise . Contact: Raja Ganeshram, University of Edinburgh.
2) Indian-Seychelles OBS-MCS cruise, including magnetic, gravity and bathymetric mapping. Crustal structure of conjugate margin. Contact: Timothy Minshull, Southampton Oceanography Centre.
3) Onshore mapping of the Pakistan Makran coast zone. Contact: Nadine Ellouz, IFP, Paris.
4) Makran margin coring, heat flow and bathymetric mapping. Investigation of mud volcanoes and gas hydreates. Deep coring with IMAGES including paleoceanographic objectives with BGR. Contact: Nadine Ellouz, IFP, Paris.
5) Somalia and Gulf of Aden paleoceanography and sediment trap investigation. Contact: Gerald Ganssen, Amsterdam.
6) Provenance fingerprinting
of sediments in the Indus River system. Contact: Peter
Clift, Woods Hole.