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Greetings from Team Tasmania!

Hello everyone! We have been in Tasmania from April to September of this year and we had an amazing experience, which we would like to share with you. But first, you should know who ‘Team Tasmania’ is. Team Tasmania is composed of Tamina Wosch, a Master’s student studying Technical Biology at the TU Darmstadt in […]

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Topic for 2019: Next GAME project will focus on microplastics

The consortium of partner scientists has now decided about the topic for 2019. GAME will focus on microplastics again. This time we want to investigate whether there is a difference in the effects of microplastic particles and natural seston components on benthic filter feeders such as mussels. The experimental approach will be similar to the […]

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Hello from (Aqua)Rio

After 3 months since they started their work, Team Brazil has finished the pilot studies of this year´s project, which is about the effects of ocean warming on diet composition in marine invertebrate grazers. But who is Team Brazil? Konstanze, from Germany, is a Marine Biology Master’s student from the University of Rostock and Paula, […]

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Hunting snails way out in the Atlantic

After four weeks of intensive planning and discussing in March 2018 with our fellow Gamies (aka GAME students) in Kiel, Team Madeira finally arrived on the island of Madeira in the beginning of April. Who is team Madeira? It is Anne, who is studying Geoecology at the University of Potsdam, and Felicitas, who is studying […]

Wie viel Mikroplastik ist an unseren Stränden?

Das Thema Mikroplastik ist derzeit in aller Munde. Fast jeder hat schon von diesen Teilchen gehört, die man kaum sehen kann und die doch anscheinend überall sind: In unserer Zahncreme, in unserem Duschgel, möglicherweise auch in unserer Nahrung, vor allem aber in unserer Umwelt. Die Sorge um die Folgen dieser Verschmutzung umtreibt viele Menschen, und […]

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GAME 2018: Grazing in a warmer ocean revisited – will marine invertebrates change their food preferences?

In the last GAME project, the student teams found experimental evidence for the assumption that consumption rates of herbivorous invertebrates will increase when the ocean gets warmer. However, their experiment was (like all experiments) somehow limited, since they offered their test animals a mono-diet that did not give them the chance to change their food […]

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Olá da equipa de Portugal!

So in this year’s Portugal GAME project, we are Joana from Lisbon, Portugal, and Katrin from Munich, Germany! We worked together on the beautiful island of Madeira and here is our tale of our time there! Joana is a Marine Ecology Master who heard about this project from a former advisor in her favourite area […]