At the moment, on board research vessel R/V Falkor, colleges are diving with a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) to a hydrothermal vent site in the south western Pacific. A live stream from the seafloor is available here. What they are doing there and why, find out here. —- Im Moment tauchen Kollegen vom Forschungsschiff […]
As MOOC authors we want our messages – the nuggets of insight, the invitation to engage – to really reach a global audience. Our MOOC was filmed in English, admittedly a wide-spread universal language of science, but by no means the language of everyone intersted in learning about the ocean. So what to do? This […]
by Marco Giorgetta, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Germany 15th of March 2016 on Meteor at 27°S / 33°W Now it is already two days since we visited the last Agulhas ring. Due to the large number of these rings they are just numbered, except the one named “Mareike eddy”, and in Sabrina’s numbering we […]
by Christina Schmidt, CAU Today we are right in the centre of a high pressure system, so everything is really calm. No winds, no big waves and, as it rained yesterday, no more salt covering the deck, make me sometimes forget that we are actually right in the middle of the South Atlantic. But we […]
by Anne Scherhag, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz It is incredible how fast the time is passing on board the Meteor: Today is already hump day. I can’t believe it is already our 10th day in the South Atlantic, and I guess, the second half will pass even faster due to being settled into […]
Just another day in Paradise. No, really. After writing this blog, I am going to head up to the sun deck with a good book and enjoy the waveless, windless, sunny day. Yesterday’s multinet sample contained very few microplastic particles for me to count- thus I have the day off before my shift starts at […]
Hello everyone, today is the first Sunday on board the Meteor. The calm waters are gone and now we taste some real southern open ocean waters. I am on one of the night shifts and we can see the amazing sunrise every day. Sundays on a ship are not like Sundays on land where you […]
Today begins the fifth day of sailing and there continues to be calm water. Every day my team group begins at midnight and we perform measurements with the XBT and uCTD and sometimes CTD with the rosette. After the end of the shift, I sleep a few hours until lunchtime and then I start again […]
Heute veröffentlichen wir im Navigator-Blog einen Gastbeitrag von Michael Stauske. Michael studiert in Kiel Philosophie und Germanistik und sammelt in der Abteilung Kommunkation und Medien des GEOMAR erste Erfahrungen in der Öffentlichkeitsarbeit. Wir schreiben das Jahr 2016, 8. Februar, Punkt 9:00 Uhr. Ich bin in ihr Habitat eingedrungen. Aufgeregt betrete ich ihren Lebensraum. Ich schaue […]
It’s another day at the FS Meteor and although it’s been only 4 days since we left Cape Town – South Africa – which is a beautiful place that I have to come back again – , it feels that we are here for weeks now. I don’t know if it’s the great interaction between […]