Investigations of the Sediment Waves and Sea Mounts in the Eastern Atlantic (Cruise 66 of the RV Akademik Ioffe)

E. V. Ivanova^a^,*, D. G. Borisov^a, N. N. Dmitrevskiy^a, A. N. Ivanenko^a, O. I. Kirillova^a, O. V. Levchenko^a, E. S. Chudinovskikh^b, and N. A. Shulga^a

^aShirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

^bKovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas, Russian Academy of Sciences, Sevastopol, Russia

email: *e_v_ivanova@ocean.ru

Received 8 August, 2024

Abstract— This paper provides information on the integrated geological, geophysical and hydrobiological investigations, as well as on passing observations on cetaceans in the Eastern Atlantic (cruise 66 of the R/V Akademik Ioffe) in June–July 2024. The preliminary scientific results are discussed.

Keywords: sediment waves, Guinea drift, Ivory Coast Rise, Canary Basin, sea mounts Pedro Nuňes, Bathymetrists, Rokel, Antarctic Bottom Water, contourites, sub-bottom profiling, magnetic anomalies, cetaceans, phytoplankton, Apstein net, metazoan microzooplankton

DOI: 10.1134/S0001437024700796