German version: See below One week Rio de Janeiro! I had hoped that this week would leave me with many impressions but certainly not so many. I arrived Thursday night, happy to finally get a sniff of the South American air again with a little time the next day to acclimatize and to fully focus […]

The ’40-hr station’ (altered now to 48 hours) is well underway, with students participating in both day and night shifts. Although there are no lectures, there is still much work to do and a lot of coffee to drink. The night brought with it an increase in the swell of the waves, hence the ship […]

There is a nervous energy onboard the RV Sonne today, as we approach the “40 hour station”. The idea is that we will place ourselves in a certain location, bring the engines of the Sonne to a stop, and then perform repeated sampling of the same water mass over almost two full days. In this […]

Sunday, 13.07.2014: Bergfest and World Cup Final On Sunday evening half of the SO234-2 cruise was already over. Time has gone by quite fast while we were busy with our station work or lectures. As is the tradition we celebrated the middle of the cruise with a “Bergfest”, the time when you reach the top […]

By Bruno Nogueira Lobo, Team Brazil Hi everyone! It is time to write about our work in Brazil. We arrived in Niterói in April and we started with our pilot studies already soon after this. However, from the beginning on we had various problems. First, like many of this year’s GAME teams, we needed to […]

08.07-13.07.2014 (Durban/South Africa – 27° S, 24° E) Here is the first Weekly Report from our SPACES (Science Partnerships for the Assessment of Complex Earth System Processes) SONNE SO234-2 cruise, a training and capacity building cruise for students from southern Africa and Germany. Fifteen students from South Africa, Namibia and Germany are participating, along with […]

Ohhh!!! Is it Day 6 or Day 7 today? It is day 6. We forgot counting the days! That’s how fantastic being on a cruise can be. We lose track of time because we are occupied by our exciting measurements and all the new inputs. We just passed the Southern tip of Madagascar which shows […]

Day 4 and 5 of our cruise held some interesting surprises for us, and we learned first hand that sometimes things on a research  vessel might not turn out as planned. After a long day of CTD measurements and filtration of water samples at our second sample station, we were eager to hear that against […]

On the fourth day (11.7.14) we are getting more and more familiar to the daily life and the routines aboard. Also the hissing sound from the vacuum toilet isn’t scaring us anymore.  After getting up and brushing our teeth, the smiley face in the bathroom mirror is telling us that an extraordinary day has to […]