JDS2

Monday September 3 proved to be a particularly successful day. While only two sampling sites were planned, the JDS2 ships completed three, thanks largely to smooth passage between Croatia and Serbia.

Many members of the JDS2 team and crew are giving a 150% human effort on the expedition -- waking at dawn, and passing out around midnight.

On Saturday morning (September 1), the JDS2 had an extensive check-up by Hungarian Customs and Immigration at the Hungarian-Croatian border.

The Danube is the most famous river. Then there are the hundreds of other rivers that flow into the Danube, resulting in the ‘Danube River Basin' covering an enormous area of Europe.

On August 31, three stations were sampled including #36 on the Danube at Paks, #37 on the Sio River and #38 on the Danube at Baja.

The morning after the big event in Budapest, the JDS2 team was relaxed and expecting that things would settle down a bit. Then it came.

Standing next to a tent beside the Danube with the Hungarian Parliament across the river, photographer Bence Kovács is asked if he thought the Danube is in good shape.

Thanks to some escalated JDS2 efforts yesterday, today's Sunday programme was reduced to two sampling sites (in the Danube and Szentendre Arm) at the beginning of Szentendre Island near the imposi