In July 2014 the first Training Through Research Class (TTR) was launched in Lake Baikal, Russia. The lake is 25 million years old and poorly explored. The cruise program focused on seafloor sampling and acoustic investigations of gas leakages (seeps), flares, mud volcanoes, slumps and debris flows, canyons and channels in the coastal proximity.
A comprehensive multidisciplinary program to train students has been developed to cover sedimentology, fluid geochemistry, biology, geophysics and marine geology in general. Daily lectures were conducted on board.
For daily blog updates, images, and ongoing cruise results, visit the cruise blog: http://baikal.festivalnauki.ru/
For more information about TTR follow this link: Training-through-Research Programme (universitetetioslo.no)
