M205 (RUBBLE) onboard records

This dataset incliudes the handwritten data sheets and gear deployment documentation of the R/V METEOR cruise M205, the sampling campaign of the RUBBLE project (Rocky seafloor — Underestimated driver for Benthic Biodiversity Living in the abyss and its Evolution; funding ID: GPF 21-1_060).

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Data and Resources

Additional Info

Field Value
Geographic coverage
Geographic description Atlantic Ocean, tropical North Atlantic, Vema Fracture Zone, eastern Vema Fracture zone
Bounding coordinates
North: 11.8
West: -33.064
East: -32.07
South: 10.8
Temporal coverage
Time period
Begin: October 22, 2024
End: November 28, 2024
Other info
Last Updated June 4, 2025, 07:57 (UTC)
Created June 4, 2025, 07:49 (UTC)

Responsible parties

Creator and point of contact
Name Torben Riehl
Organization affiliations
Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, Department of Marine Zoology

Frankfurt am Main
Germany

Research data management planning

Types of data that will be / are / were created during the project Geographical data , Occurrence data , Taxonomic data , Multimedia (images, sounds, videos, etc.) , Molecular Sequence Data , bathymetry , CTD , ADCP , thermosalinograph (TSG)
Estimated volume of created data >10TB
Data will be stored at (long-term archived) PANGAEA, ZENODO, GenBank

Link to this dataset:

https://dataportal.senckenberg.de/dataset/6f589ea9-0c01-47d7-9188-2b2ed387b14b