What are the instruments scientists used for? It may be mysterious to most of people. Today, let’s get a short impression by going close into a field study of ocean acidification. KOSMOS It is a close system. KOSMOS is like a floating iceberg. Don’t be misled by its part above water. In fact, the total […]
We (the girls from the filtration lab) are one team of several here at Espeland Marine Station near Bergen. We produce data that are the baseline for many other experiments conducted in this facility – oh dear! But what is filtration all about? Just imagine: we basically do the same everyone does in the morning […]
In KOSMOS science meetings, information about the different levels of the food web are normally presented in succession from the smallest to the largest individuals. Last time, after we had talked about the pico-eucaryotes, phytoplankton, zooplankton, apendicularians and fish larvae, I was asked about the journalists. And I like thinking of them as top predators […]
The first team blog of the new project comes from Sonia Morón and Sebastian Bicking. We are in Menai Bridge for 6 weeks now and acclimated to the Welsh weather very well. Actually, we were surprised by the marvellous, good weather here, since we expected rain or fog most of the time. Different from previous […]
Wie bereits erwähnt hatten wir am Wochenende Landgang, dieses Jahr stand Polen mit der Stadt Gdynia bei Danzig auf dem Plan. Nach einer Woche auf See freuen sich immer alle auf ein bisschen Auslauf. Andere Leute, mehr Platz, Boden der nicht schwankt, Vögel und Bäume. Von letzterem war zunächst allerdings nicht besonders viel zu sehen, […]
Es ist etwas Zeit vergangen seit dem letzten Blogeintrag, am Wochenende hatten wir Landgang und waren mit Erkundungen an Land beschäftigt, aber davon später mehr. An dieser Stelle wollen wir zuerst vom Ende der letzten Woche berichten: Am 21. und 22.05 waren wir im Bongo-Grid unterwegs, eine Reihe von Stationen bei denen nur Plankton gefischt […]
Looking in the egg-incubators since the day we put them into the mesocosms, you could see pairs of eyes staring back at you. Then suddenly it got less and less, fortunately not unexpected, since they were hatching just as calculated by the temperature they experienced over time. Signs for first hatching could already be seen […]
What’s going on at the Espeland Marine Biological Station? What are these orange constructions in the Raunefjord for? And why do we have to care about ocean acidification? In his Hjort Guest Lecture, Prof. Ulf Riebesell from GEOMAR gives a brief overview of the present state of knowledge about ocean acidification, highlights some deficits in […]
Our station is full of high-tech equipment. And all of the machines have really fancy names. Just to mention some of them: There are the Accuri and Cytosense, two flow cytometers to count the smallest organisms in the ocean. Just next door you can find the QuAAtro, an autoanalyzer for nutrients, or the Airica, which […]
A fresh northwesterly breeze blew away the rainclouds this morning and made today’s sampling a bit challenging. But everyone returned cheerfully and hungry enough for an early lunch…