Die Spannung steigt. Seit Monaten sind wir – genauso wie viele Kolleginnen und Kollegen in anderen Einrichtungen der deutschen Meeresforschung – gefühlt nur noch mit einem Thema beschäftigt: Dem bevorstehenden Wissenschaftsjahr 2016*17 “Meere und Ozeane”. Wir starteten mit ersten generellen Überlegungen Ende vergangenen Jahres und setzten die Arbeit mit der Planung konkreter Veranstaltungen und Angebote, […]
People may think that working on sea can be cold, windy, wavy, and with hard shifts – sometimes from 00:00 to 6:00 -, and that living on a boat could be, summing up, quite tough. Even though all these ideas might be partly true, after a long day, having the opportunity to see an incredible […]
Ahoi! My name is Paulina and I am a bachelor student at the Christian- Albrechts-University Kiel. For the second time in my life I get the possibility to participate in an Alkor cruise organized by Jan Dierking from the “Evolutionary Ecology of Marine Fish” Group of GEOMAR. The cruise is a very good experience for […]
On April 13th at 10 am, research vessel Alkor left the GEOMAR pier for resarch expedition AL476, the first of our two 2016 Baltic Sea integrative time series cruises. We are 11 scientists including both experienced researchers and students, and 12 permanent crew members on board. Our objective: to gather interdisciplinary data that will expand […]
WOW! The response to our crowd translation has been overwhelming – Thanks to all you wonderful people out there who are wanting and willing to get involved, and make the material we provide accessible in Chinese, Portuguese and German. (go straight to this link to see the trailer subtitled already, as an appetizer for the […]