It’s an early morning in the northern part of Penang Island, Malaysia. The sun is slowly rising over the horizon, casting golden reflections on the still calm sea as our boat hums towards the research station. The wind grazes our faces and the air is filled by the splashes of the salty sea. The green […]
Equally successful?
What is success? If you are better than others? If you do something that was expected of you? If you reach a goal you have worked hard for? If something works out, just as planned? If you are proud? If you had the chance to evolve and learn something new? I think, success, in the […]
What if the night is no longer dark? Epiphytes under Artificial Light at Night
Welcome to Chile! Muchos saludos desde Chile! Team Chile greets you from the southern hemisphere. Let us introduce ourselves: We are Lou & Bianca and we want to talk a bit about how the only southern hemisphere team in GAME 2025 is experiencing autumn and winter in Chile – instead of spring and summer like […]
FYORD Travel Grant Reports: August 2025
EGU General Assembly In the beginning of springtime in Vienna, Austria, as every year, thousands of geoscientists met for the EGU General Assembly 2025. And thanks to FYORD, I, Lenya Baumann, got the opportunity to be part of it. Studying geophysics and working as a student assistant for the group ‘Marine Geophysics and Hydroacoustics’ at […]
Abtauchen in der Kieler Förde – das Projekt Snorkeling.City
Abtauchen in die Unterwasser-Welt Kiels und mit Profis die unterschiedlichsten Organismen erforschen. Das durften wir, 24 StudentInnen der CAU, Dank dem Umweltbildungsprojekt Snorkeling.City erleben. Im Rahmen einer Exkursion haben wir uns mit Herrn Dr. Henry Göhlich und seinem Team in der Strandbar am Seebad Düsternbrook getroffen. Unser Arbeitsbereich für den heutigen Tag war perfekt gewählt, […]
Diving in the Kiel Fjord – the Snorkeling.City project
Exploring the underwater world of Kiel and discovering a wide variety of marine organisms – all guided by professionals. Thanks to the environmental education project Snorkeling.City, we, 24 students from Kiel University (CAU), had the opportunity to experience this first-hand. As part of an excursion, we met with the project coordinator Dr. Henry Göhlich and his […]
FYORD Travel Grant Reports: July 2025
EGU 2025 (I) Hello, my name is Elisaveta – though I often go by Lisa – and I’m a second-year doctoral researcher at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel. My research focuses on marine geophysics, particularly using ocean bottom seismometers (OBS) and 2D seismic reflection data. At EGU 2025, I presented data from the […]
Algae vs. ALAN on Anglesey – Light pollution research on epiphytes and macroalgae at the wild coast of northwest Wales
Croeso i Gymru! Welcome to Wales! Among Japan, the Philippines, Malaysia, Cape Verde, Chile, Finland and Spain, Wales is back as a location for this year’s GAME project! We are Stefanie and Clara and will be conducting our experiments over the summer here at the beautiful northwest coast of Wales. Stefanie is studying biology at […]
Between algae and monkeys
Research into light pollution in Malaysia Imagine you are walking along the promenade or through your favorite street at night. What do you see? The glow of streetlights, ship lights, illuminated shop windows. You probably see something, right? While actually, it should be dark. The issue at hand is light pollution. Artificial light at night […]
When light and nutrient pollution collide: How do epiphytes react?
Mabuhay from Team Philippines! For the first time in the programme’s history, GAME takes place in the tropical country of – The Philippines! Composed of 7641 islands, the Philippines is an archipelagic country, surrounded by the waters of the South China Sea on its western seaboard and the Pacific Ocean on its eastern seaboard. Literally […]