Research vessel Elisabeth Mann Borgese (Photo: IOW)

Michael Naumann from the IOW, member of the 'mud crew', is the expedition's chief scientist (Photo: IOW/F. Pohl)

The route and sampling points for this year's autumn monitoring (Map: IOW/M. Naumann)

On 28.10., the #ResearchVessel @ostseeforschung.bsky.social departed for the #AutumnMonitoring in the Baltic Sea. Extra stuff: #SedimentCores from the western Gotland Basin & PhD student Laura Pareigis from the MPI Bremen taking #DNA samples & samples for her thesis. More: tinyurl.com/5ewbyufr