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Morning duties

Henning Finkenzeller checking his Cavity Enhanced DOAS instrument. Photo: Kirstin Krüger

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 […]

Leinen los! – Cast off!

The German research vessel POSEIDON at Nordleksa during the POS420 cruise.

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: […]

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Surface drifter?

Drifter catch. Photo: Matthias Krüger

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 […]

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KLIMALE 2014 …in Bildern

Laboe lädt zur ersten KLIMALE (Foto: C.Koch)

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 […]

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SO235 first weekly report

Figure 1: SO235 cruise track, 1st leg (Image: Stefan Meinecke, FS Sonne)

 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 […]

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The difference between being gently stirred and being battered

The dream islands Maldives and Mauritius in the Indian Ocean... (Photo: Kirstin Krüger)

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 […]