AQUARIUS Funding Call – Marine and Freshwater Infrastructure Access: Open 02 September 2025 – 28 October 2025
STREAM-DANUBE
Scientific Training and Research for Ecosystem Assessment in the Danube River Plume
Funded by AQUARIUS Transnational Access Call 1
The proposed cruise aims to study benthic and pelagic processes in the Danube River plume from the Delta in Romania to Skorpilovtsi Station in Bulgaria.
Research Infrastructure Used: RV Mare Nigrum
“The Danube River Plume is where Europe’s 2nd longest river and the Black Sea meet. Here we study biogeochemical processes which are key to the understanding of the impact of several human pressures on the delicate Black Sea habitats.”
Andreas Neumann, Helmholtz Center Hereon
PARTNERS
MAIN OBJECTIVES
The proposed cruise aims to study benthic and pelagic processes in the Danube River plume from the Delta in Romania to Skorpilovtsi Station in Bulgaria. The project will provide ground-truthing data to improve local remote sensing products, characterize the carbonate system, and measure pelagic and benthic reaction rates and fluxes. The compiled data will continue observations of the influence of the Danube River on the Black Sea and contribute to the understanding of recent developments such as shifting nutrient regimes and local effects of climate change. The cruise will also offer training in ocean observing methods to personnel and students from GeoEcoMar and IO-BAS.
MORE INFORMATION
AQUARIUS TA Project Name:
Scientific Training and Research for Ecosystem Assessment in the Danube River Plume
Project acronym:
STREAM-DANUBE
TA Project Unique ID:
21
Partners involved:
• Helmholtz Center Hereon (Germany)
• GeoEcoMar (Romania)
• Institute of Oceanology – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Bulgaria)
Start date
1st September 2025
End date
13th September 2025
Mission Lighthouse Region
Danube & Black Sea
Work/research geographical
area
Southern Danube River Plume: Romanian and Bulgarian Shelf of the western Black Sea, from the Danube Delta to Skorpilovtsi Station.
Names of RI facilities used
RV Mare Nigrum
Scientific discipline(s)
Earth Sciences & Environment: Marine science/Oceanography
Principal Investigator
(PI) Affiliation
Andreas Neumann, Helmholtz Center Hereon