6 pallets of equipment was delivered to Helsingborg last week where the icebreaker “Oden” is preparing for its expedition to the Polar Basin. The Centre for Deep Sea Research has teamed up with Swedish collegues to set up a seafloor observatory close to the Ultima Thule vent field.

The first #MSS2025 afternoon session was all about enzyme evolution 👏 @paolalaurino.bsky.social - live from @oistedu.bsky.social, Ida Helene Steen @cdeepsea.bsky.social and Ioannis Riziotis @ebi.embl.org shared their latest work, using very different approaches to this fascinating topic 🤩

Pint of Science was awesome tonight! Highly recommend you make a note for (mid)May 2026 to check out your local chapter! 💯

Last week we held a symposium on Loki’s Castle hydrothermal vent field at the University of Bergen together with SVF. The first part of the day was for students in grade 9/10 and we had some interesting questions including «Would you spend the rest of your life in an underwater submersible?» 🫧🐙🐟🌊

A time lapse of the remotely operated vehicle Ægir 6000 being deployed through the «moon pool» on the deck of the icrebreaker Kronprins Haakon. CDeepSea is leading a research cruise up in the Arctic this month and this ROV is how we explore the deep ocean.

Some beautiful atacamite - a copper mineral sampled during a research dive along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

Scientists from the Centre for Deep Sea Research are on a research cruise in the Arctic at the moment, seen here prepping some equipment for an upcoming ROV dive. 💪

Some of the little outreach extras that make all the difference to budding scientists - stickers and colouring pages were a big hit last night. Perennial favourites.

Outreach - such an important part of communicating science and also a really fun part (once you are all set up and ready to go!). This was yesterday at Night at the Aquarium here in Bergen.

This is Ægir 6000 with its tether management system (right), that enables it to descend safely under sea-ice while still connected to an ice-breaker 🚢, and the control centre container (left). This all shipped out yesterday from Bergen en route to Svalbard for an upcoming Arctic research cruise.

Always super interesting to hear about the research and latest findings of colleagues- today post-doc Irina Zhulay shared her work on the biota of the Boyd seamount along the Arctic mid-ocean ridge.

A coral restoration project at the Hoi Ha Wan designated Marine Park in Hong Kong. (Taken on a field trip this week as part of the Deep-Sea Biology Symposium.)

We are very excited to announce that the next Deep-Sea Biology Symposium will be held in Bergen 🇳🇴 in 2028!! 🥳 The conference will be a collaboration between the Centre for Deep Sea Research, the UiB Dept of Biological Sciences, the University Museum, Institute of Marine Research and NORCE. 🌊🪸🌋🫧🐟

A group from the Centre for Deep Sea Research have made the 8,830-km trip to Hong Kong! Brenda presented her poster on rissoid gastropods in Arctic CBEs today.

It’s the Geological Society of Norway’s Winter Conference here in Bergen.

Starting the new year with a joke we got in a Christmas cracker… appropriate given the fact that many CDeepSea researchers were on the RV Kronprins Haakon icebreaker until the week before Christmas.

Lær om protestene mot mineralutvinning i dyphavet og se hva roboten Ægir og Senter for dyphavsforskning @cdeepsea.bsky.social gjør på havbunnen ➡️ www.nrk.no/vestland/xl/...

Staurozoa — spotted during an Ægir6000 dive west of Svalbard on the recent research cruise.

The Rampenissen (aka Elf on the Shelf) was up to no good last night at the Centre for Deep Sea Research. 🤣🎄#ElfOnTheShelf #DeepSeaMischief #ChristmasChaos

✨𝚁̲𝚎̲𝚐̲𝚒̲𝚜̲𝚝̲𝚛̲𝚊̲𝚝̲𝚒̲𝚘̲𝚗̲ ̲𝚒̲𝚜̲ ̲𝚗̲𝚘̲𝚠̲ ̲𝚘̲𝚙̲𝚎̲𝚗̲! ✨ Event: 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗵𝘀: 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗻𝘀, 𝘂𝗻𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗻𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝗲𝗲𝗽-𝘀𝗲𝗮 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 Date: 17 December 2024, Bergen Sign up for this one-day event exploring some of the cutting-edge deep-sea research that is being done at the University of Bergen. Super topical!

Here are a few books on our wish list for this festive season. (We've got more over on LinkedIn). What others should we add to the list?

Bringing rock samples from Ægir’s sampling skid into the lab so we can learn more about the geology of the Lena Trough. 🪨 💪 #scienceatsea #arcticresearch #rocksamples #ægir6000 #rvkronprinshaakon

Deep-sea loving Grimpoteuthis showed up a couple of times recently during dives with Ægir 6000 in Arctic waters. 🐙

We collected some of our favourite gift ideas for #DeepSeaScientists over on LinkedIn. (Books are missing - we had too many ideas for one post so they will be coming in Part II.) #giftideas #christmas2024 #GeekyGiftsForScientists

The view from the RV Kronprins Haakon this week!

From the bridge of the RV Kronprins Haakon currently up in the Arctic.

Ægir is ready for the next dive! There are many challenges inherent in deep-sea exploration, especially in the Arctic, but the crew are adaptable and resilient! 💪 Plans onboard RV Kronprins Haakon may change but the research continues…

We are currently breaking ice with the RV Kronprins Haakon in the polar darkness, trying to get to our sampling station 🌌🧊❄️ Turns out that the route through the ice is rarely a straight line! @cdeepsea.bsky.social @rimskaya.bsky.social

Scenes from the RV Kronprins Haakon research vessel which has just reached sea ice at 80° N.

Happy Thanksgiving to all our US collaborators and followers! 🌊🦃 This year, as every year, we’re grateful for the incredible colleagues and collaborators who make exploring the deep sea possible. Thank you for being part of our journey! #ThanksgivingDeepDive

Setting out into the #ArcticOcean! 🌊❄️ Ingvild and Morgane are two of the researchers aboard the RV Kronprins Haakon which just left Svalbard on a research cruise to the Arctic. Here they are getting temperature sensors ready. 🌡️🔬🚢 #ArcticResearch #deepseascience

Working on some super fun outreach projects today 🤩

New publication from the Arctic ridge system!

Come and join us at the Centre for Deep Sea Research, University of Bergen for a PhD project on one of the coolest periods in Earth's history - the early Archean! Interested? Apply via the link below before January 5th. Starting date as soon as possible!