The 10th of March was a special day for the students. The Expedition MSM106 took part in the UN Ocean Decade Ocean Laboratory “A Healthy and Resilient Ocean” as a satellite activity. The students produced a live-stream video from the Atlantic Ocean onboard of R/V Maria S. Merian. Melissa Ndure from Sierra Leone guided the […]
#MSM106 Floating University- Life onboard of Maria S. Merian
What would you expect to see on a research vessel crossing the North-East Atlantic ocean on its way from Cape Verde to Germany? What do you think about the life onboard? Herein, we want to talk about the progress of the work within the expedition MSM106, the free time, the policies onboard, how we deal […]
#MSM106 My story at WASCAL Cabo Verde, Universidade Técnica do Atlântico
German version below I am Gilles Florent SORO, I come from the Côte d’Ivoire, I have a degree in Biological Sciences from the University Peleforo Gon Coulibaly of Korhogo. Since my childhood, I have always been passionate about studying the environment, so my academic career is in this logic. Today, as a Master of Climate […]
#MSM106 Floating University #IAmScience
German version below Tales of A Marine Scientist Growing up, I have always been fascinated by the sea- this endless beautiful body of water. People loved to go to the beach for recreation, but I always wanted to see what the sea brought to land-shells, plants, shoes. It was a different kind of love. So, […]
#MSM106 Floating University -Come Along – My First Research Cruise Experience
Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be part of a research cruise? Ever since I joined the WASCAL master’s program in Climate Change and Marine Sciences, I have earnestly been waiting for the program’s shipboard training component. My expectations prior to the cruise were quite high as I could not wait to immerse […]
#MSM106 WASCAL FLOATING UNIVERSITY: The Ocean around us
>deutsche Fassung siehe weiter unten< It is unbelievable that around Cabo Verde, there exists a large expanse of blue water bigger than a River. The research voyage on the R/V MARIA S. MERIAN began on February 26, 2022 and we are still excited and impressed by the famous big blue ‘water body’ that is called OCEAN. […]
#MSM106 WASCAL Floating University-Our excitement prior to Cruise
>German version below< The research trip on R/V MARIA S. MERIAN was scheduled to start on the 26th of February, 2022 and we were all excited and couldn’t wait to get started. This cruise being one of the scholarship packages of Climate Change and Marine Sciences under WASCAL motivated most of us and raised our […]
#MSM106 WASCAL Floating University – from white to blue
>German version below< It’s kind of crazy that you want to investigate the oceans and have to go to the mountains first. Huh, why is that? I haven’t quite understood it yet myself , but that is what I did.Due to the Corona pandemic, it is unfortunately no longer so easy to explore the ocean […]
SO287-CONNECT: Das Tischtennisturnier auf hoher See
english version below Der letzte Tag an Bord. Die ersten von uns haben heute am 11.12.2021 bereits das Schiff in Richtung Heimat verlassen. Der Rest tritt morgen die Rückreise oder den verdienten Urlaub in Quito, der Hauptstadt Ecuadors oder auf den nicht weit entfernten Galapagos Inseln an. Zum Abschied einer Expedition wird traditionell ein Expeditionssticker […]
SO287-CONNECT: Patience is Key
The cruise is coming to an end, and there are 8 days left until we enter the port of Guayaquil. While some of the measurements on board can be read out directly and preliminary interpretations are presented during the cruise, there are also a lot of samples that can only be analyzed in the laboratory […]