¡Buenas!  Mi nombre es Gabi, soy una de las dos estudiantes doctorales argentinas que tuvieron la suerte de participar de esta travesía en barco a través del Atlántico. Soy una fan absoluta de las algas y de la teledetección y como tal me gustaría compartir el siguiente pensamiento:   Gabi

Today is our sixth day on board of the Meteor and we successfully accomplished our fourth Multinet station. Apart from smaller incidents, like the loss of a water sampling bottle and calibration problems of pH and O2 sensors, our Multinet does what it should do: It brings us plankton samples from different water depths on […]

Today, sunday, is the fourth day at sea for us and we are slowly developing a routine. We are divided up into groups of four, each group doing two of six shifts on board – each shift lasts four hours and during that shift we are responsible for doing all the measurements that are scheduled […]

Consumption means detachment. Detachment from our origin. It means that there is always something in between. Something artificial, a manmade system which interferes. Money. Money and the value we assign to a certain thing. I feel here everything is about consumption – I’m not only talking about fast food and drive thrus. I talk about […]

The last days I was trying so hard to finish the next post. I wonder why it is so difficult to finish it. There is so much in my head, so much to write about, so many beginnings and little pieces I noted down, but I can’t sort myself so that I’d expressed it in […]