Cruise title: SMARTEX
Lead PIs: Adrian Glover / Daniel Jones
Partners: NOC, NHM, U. Southampton, U. Plymouth, SAMS, U. Liverpool, Heriot-Watt Uni., BGS
Location: Pacific Ocean
Dates: 05 February 2024
About: The NERC SMARTEX (Seabed Mining And Resilience To EXperimental impact) project aims to provide the scientific evidence base for informed decision making by understanding the long-term environmental impacts of mining and whether this will have serious consequences to the ecosystem.