“Wyneberg, Wyneberg” – a hooting Minibus taxi is racing past us on the way to the upper campus of the University of Cape Town (UCT), a man hangs half out the front-passengers window, smiling and whistling at us. Us being Matthew and Silja, Team South Africa, in short: Team SA, ready to revive the GAME […]
Since I learned that the biological effects of microplastics would be the focus of the GAME project in 2019, I was enthusiastic to participate. The effects of microplastics are a subject that I have been studying already in the last years during my undergraduate course in Marine Biology at the Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF) in Niterói, […]
Paulo and Leo from Team Cabo Verde say bom dia to all out there and want to share experiences and news about their GAME project in the middle of the tropical Atlantic Ocean. They are based at the Ocean Science Centre Mindelo on the island of Sao Vicente. Paulo is the Caboverdian part of the […]
Good Morning and ma nishma everyone! We are Team Israel and would like to introduce ourselves to you on this issue of the monthly blog about our experiences in the GAME project. We are Anna and Lukas and unlike the other teams, ours consist of two German students. But even though both of us are […]
Greetings! Team Tassie here dropping in to say “Good day!” We’d first like to introduce ourselves – our names are Maria and Vincent. Maria is a German student currently enrolled at the University of Kiel, doing her Master’s degree in Environmental Management. She has previously completed a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Sciences at the University […]
Das internationale Forschungs- und Ausbildungsprogramm GAME (Globaler Ansatz durch Modulare Experimente) lädt seit 17 Jahren Studierende der Biologie und verwandter Fachbereiche ein, sich an globalen Studien zu beteiligen, die die Auswirkungen menschengemachter Veränderungen auf das Meer untersuchen. Jedes Jahr widmet sich das Programm einer bestimmten Fragestellung und entsendet Teams aus Studierenden an Partnerinstitute auf der […]
Here is a latecoming blog from GAME 2018. We have been the first GAME students to conduct experiments at the Ocean Science Centre Mindelo (OSCM) on the island of São Vicente that belongs to the archipelago of Cabo Verde. It was exciting for us to explore a new GAME site but also exhausting and laborious. […]
Von Sinja Dittmann Wer kennt sie nicht, die „Grashaufen“, welche im Spülsaum des Strandes angeschwemmt werden. Die Rede ist von Strandanwurf, auch Treibsel genannt, welches an der deutschen Ostseeküste meist aus Seegras (Zostera marina L.) und Algen (Fucus vesiculosus L. und Fucus serratus L.), sowie aus Muschelschalen und Treibholz besteht. Was vielen Seevögeln und Insekten […]
Last week, we sat with all our GAME friends together, talking, drinking, having fun and suddenly we had this melancholic thought: “damn only one month to go”! Where did all the time go? How fast can a 9-month experience be? We got a bit sad and started talking about all the great things we experienced, […]
As our time in Indonesia has ended and we are back in Kiel, it’s time to tell you about our experiences: Actually, there are normally about 11 000 km between Ica, an Indonesian student in Bogor and Vroni, who is studying in Bayreuth, Germany. In March, we first met in Kiel at GEOMAR where this […]