We participate in projects of partners along ultraslow spreading ridges. These include the Seamstress project at the University of Tromsø. This project tries to evaluate the effect of tectonic stresses on the release of greenhouse gases, especially near spreading ridges. This gives us the opportunity to look at spreading processes at the northern termination of Knipovich Ridge.

Together with scientists from the Centre for Deep Sea Research at the University of Bergen in Norway, we are investigating processes and connections between geology and biology in the deep sea. Together we set out in search of new hydrothermal vent fields during expedition PS137 on board the icebreakers Polarstern and Kronprins Haakon.