{"id":152,"date":"2011-10-12T15:27:58","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T15:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/houseofwisdom\/2011\/10\/new-kaust-expedition-to-explore-the-red-sea.html"},"modified":"2011-12-21T13:18:36","modified_gmt":"2011-12-21T13:18:36","slug":"new_kaust_expedition_to_explor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/houseofwisdom\/2011\/10\/new_kaust_expedition_to_explor.html","title":{"rendered":"New KAUST expedition to explore the Red Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Red_sea_satellite.jpg\" align=right src=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/houseofwisdom\/files\/Red_sea_satellite.jpg\" width=\"260\"; height=\"280\" \/>Following two previous expeditions in spring 2010 and fall 2008, the <span class=\"caps\">KAUST<\/span> Red Sea Expedition (<span class=\"caps\">KRSE<\/span>) set out on its third trip mid-September, with about 60 marine biologists on board to study and document the Red Sea further.<\/p>\n<p>The expedition be be exploring and collecting samples to study from brine pools, colds seeps and deep amd mid-water environments. The researchers will explore and collect microorganisms and fauna from the different environments they will visit.<\/p>\n<p>While the expedition mostly involves researchers from KAUST&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/rsrc.kaust.edu.sa\/pages\/home.aspx\">Red Sea Research Center<\/a>, there are several international research partners involved, such as Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (<span class=\"caps\">WHOI<\/span>) , Massachusetts, <span class=\"caps\">USA<\/span>, the American University of Cairo (<span class=\"caps\">AUC<\/span>), Egypt and Hellenic Center for Marine Research (<span class=\"caps\">HCMR<\/span>), Greece.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The scale of <span class=\"caps\">KRSE<\/span> 2011 is just tremendous, given the peculiarities of the research objectives involved and the challenges associated with achieving the sampling requirements to meet these,&#8221; explains Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Suwailem, <span class=\"caps\">CMOR<\/span> Core Lab Manager, in a press release. &#8220;Our studies have become more diversified in scope, all geared towards advancing the marine science agenda of the University.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The researchers will stay aboard the 62-m long research vessel <i>R\/V Aegaeo<\/i> of <span class=\"caps\">HCMR<\/span> for 81-days during the sea voyage, which will return to the <span class=\"caps\">KAUST<\/span> campus 15 December.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Sea remains one of the least studied water bodies in the world. The two previous expeditions yielded important scientific discoveries about the temperature, salinity, currents and radiation. Researchers used the data to model the circulation and current patterns of the Red Sea. The trips also gathered unique bacteria samples from brine pools that were taken back ashore and studied ifurther, paving the way for some interesting discoveries, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/nmiddleeast\/2011\/110728\/full\/nmiddleeast.2011.96.html\">extremophile bacteria<\/a> that can have useful industrial applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\u201cRed_sea_satellite.jpg\u201d align=right src=\u201chttps:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/houseofwisdom\/images\/Red_sea_satellite.jpg\u201d width=\u201c260\u201d height=\u201c280\u201d \/>Following two previous expeditions in spring 2010 and fall 2008, the KAUST Red Sea Expedition (KRSE) set out on its third trip mid-September, with about 60 marine biologists on board to study and document the Red Sea further.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/houseofwisdom\/2011\/10\/new_kaust_expedition_to_explor.html#wpn-more-152\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/houseofwisdom\/2011\/10\/new_kaust_expedition_to_explor.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-research","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/houseofwisdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/houseofwisdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/houseofwisdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/houseofwisdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/houseofwisdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/houseofwisdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/houseofwisdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/houseofwisdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/houseofwisdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}