Portuguese researcher co-leads Paleoceanography of the Iberian margin expedition

Fátima Abrantes, researcher at the Portuguese Institute of Sea and Atmosphere (IPMA) and collaborator at the Center for Marine Science (CCMAR), is co-chief of the Paleoceanography of the Iberian Margin expedition (EXP397), carried out aboard the American ship JOIDES Resolution, which was anchored at Alcântara docks.

The researcher was recently awarded the Ambassador Award - Union Award, by the American Geophysical Union's (AGU) and co-leads this expedition with David Hodell, researcher at Cambridge University, UK.

This expedition left Lisbon last Sunday (October 16) and counts on the participation of 26 researchers from ten countries - China, Japan, Australia, India, USA, Germany, Spain, France, Portugal and the United Kingdom - and technicians from the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP). Portugal is represented by FCT in the European consortium ECORD, enabling the participation of researchers affiliated with Portuguese research institutions in the international expeditions of the IODP.

This expedition "Paleoceanography of the Iberian Margin" (EXP397), which will run until December 2022, aboard the drilling ship JOIDES Resolution, a flexible and multifunctional platform that allows obtaining samples from the deep sea, available to the international scientific community involved in the IODP program, has the mission of reconstructing the climate of the last 3 million years, focusing particularly on the warmer periods and with atmospheric CO2 levels similar to the values expected for 2030.