The RV Celtic Explorer. Image: Marine Institute
The AR7E-2026 project aims to generate new insights into the links between ocean circulation, climate, carbon cycling and marine ecosystems.
An international team of researchers has set off aboard the Marine Institute’s RV Celtic Explorer vessel on an expedition to track chemical and biological changes in the ocean.
The RV Celtic Explorer will be used by the team for the AR7E-2026 project, which will conduct hydrographic (meaning measurements and descriptions relating to the ocean’s physical features) and biological observations along a stretch of ocean used for scientific analysis, known as a transect, from Ireland to Cape Farewell at the southern shore of Greenland.
The project aims to build on hydrographic transects that have provided climate quality measurements across the Atlantic Ocean for decades.
