John Fleng Steffensen -  ProjectPics

Pictures from different projects:

Research Cruise with R/V Dana to Greenland 2021. Drone Photo: Lars Emil Juel Andersen.

Amalie and Kirstine ultrasound scanning a (pregnant?) shark - preparing for doing it from an inflateable on research crusie to Greenland.

Physiological experiment concerning body temperature in marine mammals - a beluga from Canada and a Hawaiian false killer whale.

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Research cruise with R/V Dana from the Technical University of Denmark to Angmagssalik Fjord, Greenland with 18 scientist from 7 nations.
Research projects: Biology and physiology of Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus) and biodiversity of fish from East Greenland.
Financial support from Danish Center for Marine Research, Kommissionen for Videnskabelige Undersøgelser i Grønland, Save Our Seas Foundation and National Geographics.
Cruise organized by Prof. John Fleng Steffensen, Dept. of Biology, Marine Biological Section, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Period: 14.-23. September 2012.

Video produced by Henrik Schurmann and Anders Drud Jordan.

Description of the project http://www.mbl.ku.dk/JFSteffensen/DCH/index.htm

Fishing for Greenland sharks with long line in North Eastern Greenland August 2010. This shark was 330 cm long with a mass of 250 Kg.

Photo: John Fleng Steffensen.

The transparent Indian glass catfish, Kryptopterus bicirrhis - observation of the secondary circulatory system

Photo: Holger Knudsen, MBL

Project At McMurdo Station, Antarctica, concerning the metabolic-cold-adaptation question.

Arriving at McMurdo - Landing strip is on the Ross Ice shelf.. Photo: JFSteffensen.

Fishing trip to the McMurdo Sound. Emperor penguin studying our helicopter parked on the sea ice. Photo: JFSteffensen. 

Recovering a fish trap from 700 meters depth. We used a Weddell seal breathing hole rather than drilling a hole through the 2 meter thick ice. The seal is sleeping in the background. This was a very cold and windy day. Photo: JFSteffensen. 

Killer whales hunting penguins - and showing interest in us. Photo: J. F. Steffensen

Field work and a penguin that escaped the killer whales. Photo: JFSteffensen.

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Expedition to Station Nord, North-eastern Greenland, 2004 - investigation of water temperature, ice thickness and fish diversity - will continue 2009 - 2012

Arriving at Station Nord at 81 ^oN midday in February 2004. Air temperature was -36 DegC. Photo: JFSteffensen

Making holes through the ice for CTD-measurements at 81 ^oN. Station Nord can be seen in the background. Photo: JFSteffensen.