Cruise Bursaries

1) Cruise AXIAL aboard the R/V Marcus Langseth Summer 2019

French research cruise SMARTIES of RV “Pourquoi Pas?” and deep-sea submersible “Nautile” will take place between 12 July and 24 August 2019 on the intersection of the Mid-Atlandtic Ridge axis and the Romanche Transform Fault. Port calls will be on the Cape Verde Islands.

InterRidge supports Cruise Bursaries to help early career ridge-crest scientists to participate in international mid-ocean ridge research cruises. Bursaries are awarded for travel and subsistence costs required to join the cruise. Please see the recipients of awards since 2011. We invite graduate students and postdoctoral researchers to apply.

Two students, Mederic Amman (University of Strasbourg, France) and Nina Jordan (University of Leicester, UK), are awarded the InterRidge Cruise Bursaries to participate the VESPAN Cruise in May-June 2015. The interRidge office would like to thank the PIs  Nick Mortimer and Martin Patriat for providing opportunity to students to gain first-hand experience on board. 

A forthcoming 27 day French-New Zealand research cruise is scheduled on l'Atalante for mid-2015. The cruise is called VESPA (Volcanic Evolution of South Pacific Arcs). It is a 27 day cruise, that will start and finish in Noumea, New Caledonia, sometime in the window 15 May-16 June 2015.

The following have been selected to receive InterRidge cruise travel bursaries:

Ana Maia (Cardiff University,UK)

Aldina Piedade (Cardiff University, UK)

Congratulations to both of them and we look forward to following their progress.

Following a very high level of interest in the Rainbow cruise, the following have been selected to receive InterRidge cruise travel bursaries:

Omar Benazzouz (University of Aveiro, Portugal)
Michele Paulatto (University of Oxford, UK)
Maja Fabeta (National University of Ireland, Galway)

Congratulations to all three and we look forward to following their progress.

The Chief Scientists on the OCEANOGRAFLUX cruise are offering  a spare berth to an early-career scientist and InterRidge is supporting this with a cruise bursary, which will pay for the person's flights and a hotel night if necessary. There are no other costs onboard.

The cruise will be onboard the RV Marcus Langseth, from April 10th (departure St. George, Bermuda) through May 19th (arrival Ponta Delgada, Azores), 2013.

There are 2 berths available for international collaborators interested in mid-ocean ridge research, with the support of InterRidge through its Cruise Bursary Scheme.
- one berth for a postdoc or early-career scientist, ideally with expertise in multichannel seismic reflection data acquisition and processing, and/or multibeam bathymetry mapping.
- one berth for a graduate student or post-doc.

An InterRidge cruise bursary is available for an early-career scientist, to enable participation on a cruise to deploy 3 hydrophones in the equatorial Atlantic. The chief scientist is Deborah Smith (WHOI). The cruise departs from and returns to Bridgetown, Barbados. The dates of the cruise are June 22 – July 9, 2012. An application form can be found at: http://www.interridge.org/cruisebursary and should be sent to the InterRidge Office ([email protected])