Eco-Reef Monitoring in The Canyons MCZ, May 2026
Fig. 1 RRS Discovery conducting night operations at the Whittard Canyon (Celtic Margin) with the HyBIS robotic underwater vehicle in the North Atlantic (May 2026)Angus Rees, Andrew Gates, and Veerle Huvenne (NOC) revisited the eco-reefs deployed in September of 2025. From 2–22 May 2026, RRS Discovery Expedition 210 was conducted to continue the multidecadal research […]
Bratten MPA Soft-Bottom Habitats, May – July 2026
University of Gothenburg and GEOMAR complete the first long-term lander recovery and redeployment at the Swedish REDRESS restoration site How does the seabed recover when direct pressure from bottom trawling is removed? This is the central question being addressed by REDRESS in the Bratten Marine Protected Area (MPA) in the Skagerrak. At this Swedish restoration […]
The Canyons Marine Conservation Zone (Atlantic), September-October 2025
The National Oceanography Centre REDRESS team (Andrew Gates, Lisa Skein, Veerle Huvenne, Sara Driscoll) deployed 15 ecoreefs to encourage cold-water growth in a restoration experiment on coral ‘mini-mounds’ within The Canyons Marine Conservation Zone, south-west of the UK. The reefs were deployed on the RRS Discovery DY200 expedition between 22 September – 12 October 2025 […]
Dohrn Canyon (Tyrrhenian Sea), September 2025
The DEMETRA 25 cruise on board of the R/V Gaia Blu was carried out on 21st September – 2nd October in the Gulf of Naples (Mediterranean Sea) over the three areas explored and selected during the ECOREST II: Dohrn Canyon, Magnaghi Canyon and the adjacent Cuma Channel. Different members of the REDRESS consortium were on […]
Dohrn Canyon (Tyrrhenian Sea), July 2024
The ECOREST II cruise on board the R/V GAIA BLU was carried out on July 12-22, 2024, in the Gulf of Naples, one of the areas of intervention selected in the Mediterranean Sea. Different members of the REDRESS consortium, UNIVPM, CNR and SZN were on board. Scientists of UNIVPM deployed 3D printed eco-reefs and Artificial […]