It is 5 in the morning and your cell phone is trying to wake you up. Well, actually the clocks were set one hour earlier, as or cruise has brought us now considerably to the east. The three shifts for the crew members (12:00-4:00, 4:00-8:00, 8:00-12:00, both am and pm) were equally shortened by twenty […]
After one week on the ship we will soon sample our 29th underway sampling and our 12th CTD station at 7°20’ S 66° E. This week has been very busy and we hardly slept, but we are excited about the results of our first experiments on board. We – the “biologists” – try to get […]
Ahoi und herzlich willkommen zum Blog zur POSEIDON-Expedition POS 473! (English version below) Vom 15. bis zum 31. August 2014 sind wir mit dem Kieler Forschungsschiff POSEIDON und dem einzigen bemannten Forschungstauchboot Deutschlands, JAGO, vor der norwegischen Küste unterwegs, um zukünftige Auswirkungen des Klimawandels auf Kaltwasserkorallen und ihre Riff-Nachbarn besser zu verstehen. Wir, das sind: […]
After a spontaneous preparation phase, we were ready to deploy the surface drifter on the evening of July 28. Surface drifter? The drifter consists of three parts: a floating buoy (looking like an oversized spear used for fishing); a 6 m long rope connecting the buoy to a 5 m long sack; and, at its […]
Es ist Montag – die KLIMALE 2014 ist Geschichte. Und zwar eine ganz wunderbare! Das Wochenende unter dem Motto “küste klima kunst” kann zweifelsfrei in der Kategorie -erfolgreich- gelistet werden. Hier einige wenige Impressionen vom Strand aus Laboe: Wir hoffen, ihr hattet genau so viel Freude an der Veranstaltung wie wir und […]
Sunday, 27.07.2014: Entering the high risk area After leaving the 26h station we headed north and entered an area that is declared as high risk area for pirate attacks by NATO. We will stay inside this area until the end of our journey, since the whole Maldives lie within it as well. What cruising in […]
23.-27.07.2014 from Port Louis / Mauritius to Malé / Maldives Here is the first weekly report of our SO235 SONNE-OASIS (“Organic very short-lived substances and their air-sea exchange from the Indian Ocean to the stratosphere”) expedition, funded by the BMBF (project 03G0235A). The aim of our research is to investigate the biogeochemical cycling and exchange […]
26.07.2014 Raising this CTD has proven to be difficult. Our most beloved scientific instrument got caught in a rogue long fishing line which also entangled the ship and the propeller. Some cuts here and there by the crew of RV Sonne solved the problem and our CTD could serve us another round of “fresh” water […]
It’s another day of revisiting plans and making lists. In between answering the usual first cruise days questions about where can I find this and that, the water sampling had to be organized. This means deciding which samples are wanted by the individual working groups and can be managed during the simultaneous three hourly underway […]
… damit ihr unsere Vorfreude auf das nun kommende KLIMALE Wochenende ein wenig nachvollziehen könnt, hier nochmals die schönsten Eindrücke des letzten Vortages des Events: