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<\/a><\/p>\nAbb. 3: Multibeam-Aufzeichnungen<\/p>\n
Gegen Ende der Schicht ist es nun an der Zeit, die gemessenen Daten zu sammeln und f\u00fcr alle\u00a0 \u00fcbrigen Wissenschaftler in einem geeigneten Programm darzustellen. Auf dieser aktuellen Datenbasis wird anschlie\u00dfend das weitere Vorgehen ausgiebig diskutiert und idealerweise die optimale Route f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten 10-20 Stunden festgelegt. Vor spontanen Plan\u00e4nderungen ist jedoch niemand gefeit.<\/p>\n
P\u00fcnktlich um 12 Uhr ert\u00f6nt das Nebelhorn und markiert gleichzeitig das Ende unserer ersten Schicht. Nach der Schicht\u00fcbergabe wartet auch schon das Mittagessen auf uns. Nach 8 Stunden Pause (hier kommt auf dem Peildeck oder auch Sonnendeck genannt doch ab und zu ein bisschen Urlaubsfeeling auf), beginnt das Ganze noch einmal von vorn. Zwischendurch hilft man auch gern den Kollegen der Geologie beim Aufarbeiten der bereits zahlreich gesammelten Sedimentkerne und l\u00e4sst sich einen eindrucksvollen Einblick in mehrere tausend Jahre Erdgeschichte geben.<\/p>\n
Wir hoffen nun allen Lesern einen guten Einblick in das Leben auf unserem sch\u00f6nen Schiff gegeben zu haben und freuen uns auf weitere spannende Entdeckungen an Bord des modernsten deutschen Forschungsschiffes, der Maria S. Merian.<\/p>\n
Beste Gr\u00fc\u00dfe,<\/p>\n
Anke und Sebastian<\/p>\n
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Seafaring is funny, seafaring is\u2026 yes, what do you actually do on such a scientific vessel? If you tried to explain to your relatives at home what you are going to do on this research vessel for five weeks, you would quickly recognize a bit of confusion on their face. Seismic measurements? What\u2019s that? And where are you going \u2013 Canary Islands? Ohh that is a vacation!<\/p>\n
Within this report we are going to try to disabuse everyone from these misunderstandings.<\/p>\n
Fallacy No. 1: VACATION on the Canary Islands<\/i><\/p>\n
The water is really dark blue and the sun is shining nearly every day, but the sandy beach, hotels, bars and the possibility to go sightseeing are missing. You can only see water, everyday water surrounds you! We haven\u2019t seen the Canary Islands at all and even Morocco was only visible through a spyglass as dusty stripe on the horizon. So, rather than sightseeing we dedicate ourselves to the highly exciting scientific questions from the deep of the ocean.<\/p>\n
Fallacy No. 2: Seismic\/hydroacustic measurements \u2013 what do you do there?<\/p>\n
At 7 o\u2019clock am in the morning the clock is ringing. In quite a sleepy mood you tumble to the mess to prepare yourself with coffee and roll for the day. Well satisfied by the meal our watch starts exactly at 8 o\u2019clock. Our fellows from the previous watch are welcomed with a friendly \u201cMoin, Moin\u201d and afterwards they inform us about current issues. The laboratory looks like a computer pool with a total of 15 monitors (!!!), which all have to be watched. How do you stay on top of things one might ask? Yeah well, we have a system, as long as everything is GREEN, everything is alright. Then the main task is to check incoming data and to write a protocol.<\/p>\n
Besides this, we get a fresh salty breeze of seawater blown around our nose when we do our control walk to the airgun \u2013 here we don\u2019t talk about an air rifle, instead it\u2019s a seismic source, shown in Fig. 1 \u2013 and the streamer every 15 min. You have to be careful, that the airgun and streamer are towed right. Fig. 2 presents how we put the streamer out in the water on Tuesday evening. Our walk brings us further to the pulser station, where we have to look that the airgun has enough air pressure for breathing (shooting).<\/p>\n
In case a red light appears on the monitors, we have to find out what\u2019s the problem. Small errors we can fix by ourselves but if major programme errors occur, then we have to inform those responsible for. And most important is the telephone number 111. This is the bridge, which on one hand always has to be informed and on the other hand gives helpful support.<\/p>\n
Besides seismic, which focuses on exploration of subsurface structures, it is furthermore of interest to map the surface topography of the seabed. Therefore we use a multibeam measurement system. The functionality works quite the same as a strategy computer game. At the beginning the map is completely black. Then you tell your citizen to walk around to reveal it step by step. In our case the function of the citizen is the ship, which is controlled by us as in the real game.<\/p>\n
At the end of our watch it is time to organize measured data and finally to visualize them for all the other scientists in a suitable program. Based on the current data, next steps are discussed extensively and ideally the most helpful route is set for the following 10-20 hours. But spontaneous changes are always possible and happen quite frequently!<\/p>\n
Exactly at 12 o\u2019clock the foghorn sounds and marks the end of our first watch of the day. After shift change, lunch is already waiting for us. Again after 8 hours (in this time the monkey island or better known as sun island radiates a bit of holiday feeling J ), the whole duty starts once more. In the meantime we like to help our geology fellows with the numerous cores already collected during the cruise. Highly intensive discussions about the deposition history of the sediments reveal an impressive insight into thousands of years of earth history.<\/p>\n
We hope that all our readers are now informed about work at our beautiful vessel. We look forward to more and more exciting discoveries on board of the modernist German research vessel, the Maria S. Merian.<\/p>\n
Best regards<\/p>\n
Anke and Sebastian<\/p>\n
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