Multidisciplinary scientific cruise to the Rio Grande Rise

• Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science
• Main Authors: Jovane, Luigi, Hein, James R., Yeo, Isobel A., Benites, Mariana, Bergo, Natascha M., Corrêa, Paulo V. F., Couto, Daniel M., Guimarães, Ayrton D., Howarth, Sarah A., Miguel, Henrique R., Mizell, Kira L., Moura, Denise S., Vicentini Neto, Francisco L., Pompeu, Mayza, Rodrigues, Ianco M. M., Santana, Frederico R., Serrao, Pedro F., Silva, Tomas E., Tura, Pedro M., Viscarra, Carolina L., Chuqui, Mateus G., Pellizari, Vivian H., Signori, Camila N., Da Silveira, Ilson C. A., Sumida, Paulo Y. G., Murton, Bramley J., Brandini, Frederico P.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: South Atlantic Ocean
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/523765/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/523765/1/fmars-06-00252%20%281%29.pdf; https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00252

Rio Grande Rise (RGR) is a broad elevation in the South Atlantic Ocean consisting of western and eastern parts, that in total measures about 874 km east-west by about 480 km north-south. There is a scarcity of available information to the scientific community and to address this, the Marine E-tech project has taken a holistic and interdisciplinary scientific approach to understand the oceanographic and geological environment of the rise. Here we present geophysical, geological, biological and physical oceanography dataset spanning a depth range from 640 to 2060 m acquired during a multidisciplinary scientific cruise to RGR in 2018.