We are back!

Yes, it was a long time ago when I posted on this blog. The reason for my long silence was coordinating the GoJelly H2020 project, where all of our activities were reported mainly through the project homepage (www.gojelly.eu).I am back with a piece of exciting news! Yesterday, we deployed the first model of our microplastic […]

Moments of aftermath!

On January 8th we launched officially our Horizon 2020 Project „GoJelly“. The project is supported by the European commission to address marine litters by using jellyfish as an innovative and also new source for biotech-based researches which is unique worldwide in the structure we proposed. The main focus is to investigate in an anti-microplastic filter […]

To be (complete) or not to be- That is the question

We finally published our research article on the choice of regeneration in the invasive comb jelly. you can follow the PR, as well as a link to the paper here: https://www.geomar.de/en/news/article/wundheilung-oder-neue-koerperteile-die-umwelt-entscheidet/ Here you can also find an interesting short movie on how we cut the larvae into half.  complete larvae has two tentacles and were […]

Science, Not Silence

that is the top slogan for tomorrow’s march. 22nd April is named as “Earth Day” and gets celebrated worldwide since 1970. This year, however, will be a special event after all what had happened during and after the US presidential election when Donald Trump called climate change as a bluff: http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-scientists-politics-trump-20170209-story.html organizers of “March for […]

Sampling techniques at sea

  Doing science at sea is more difficult as on land because it is not easily accessible. Therefore we needed some special devices to get an insight into the marine fauna. To measure different properties of the water body we used the CTD as he first device at every station. CTD stands for conductivity (salinity), […]

Cruising to Kristineberg

After sampling for 2 days in the Skagerrak, we arrived on a sunny day in the city of Gothenberg through a fjord dotted with rocky outcrops and picturesque lighthouses. Gothenberg is the second biggest city in Sweden, home of Göteberg University and an eclectic mix of historical and modern buildings. Although our first evening was […]

The Graveyard Shift

The problem with such strict and frequent sampling schedules on research vessels is that night shifts are inevitable; the time and financial restraints of such a cruise mean that you cannot afford to wait around at a station until the sun is up, the weather is favourable, and more importantly, the personnel are awake! The […]

What’s special about RV Poseidon?

Now that Leila and Julia have already described life on board of the research vessel Poseidon, it’s time to talk about the ship itself. With its 40 years of travelling the seas, Poseidon is the Old Lady of the German research fleet. It is 60.8 m long, 11.4 m wide and has a draught of […]

Life onboard

Welcome to our new home, on board Poseidon. We are 8 students on a research cruise for our Master program in Biological Oceanography at the GEOMAR. It has been 10 days now and we are amazed by how much we have learnt and achieved in such a short time. Despite the tight sampling schedule and […]