(Deutsche Version unten) Our cruise on the RV POSEIDON slowly comes to an end and today is the last day of sampling. My task during this cruise is sampling environmental DNA (eDNA). eDNA is defined as genetic material obtained directly from environmental samples, in our case water samples of different depths, without any obvious signs […]
(Deutsche Version unten) Finally, we have JAGO back on board the FS POSEIDON once again, and this time in an even warmer working area. We gladly left the gray winter in Kiel behind for this cruise. Every time we pull the yellow submersible out of the transport container on the deck of POSEIDON, it’s like […]
During our last days here in our working area we are shifting it into gear, because it is harvesting time! Finally we will have a look at our data coming back from the sea floor – we all have been waiting for this very moment since weeks now (and some of us since a few […]
(Deutsche Version unten) Between the 14 Feb and 1 May expedition POS520 with RV Poseidon and the submersible JAGO takes place off the coast of the cape verde island Santo Antão. The chief scientist, the JAGO team and participants of the cruise write here as guest writers. Today: Karen Osborn, Curator of Marine Invertebrates at […]
In our last blog entries we have already reported on our gear and how difficult recovery can be at times. Today, we would like to share some of the daily working life of the scientists here on board with you. Marine geophysical surveys commonly require a large number of helping hands (and brains, of course). […]
(Deutsche Version unten) Between the 14 Feb and 1 March 2018 expedition POS520 with RV POSEIDON and the submersible JAGO takes place off the coast of the cape verde island Santo Antão. The chief scientist, the JAGO team and participants of the cruise write here as guest writers. Today Henk-Jan Hoving, GEOMAR, Deep Sea Biologist, […]
With a few hours delay we left the port of Las Palmas on Gran Canaria to sail to the Ligurian Sea. The start of MSM 71 indeed proved stormy: The Atlantic waters greeted us with winds of 7 Bft and gales of up to 10 Bft with waves of 6 m height. Nonetheless, everybody on […]
(Beitrag von Joachim Dengg, GEOMAR) … das hindert uns natürlich nicht daran, schon mal von den Vorbereitungen zum Ozeanworkshop mehr meer 2017 auf Helgoland zu berichten! Im Moment sind noch Bestellungen für Materialien auf den Weg zu bringen, Dinge zu koordinieren, Blogs einzurichten (wie man sieht), usw. Einen guten Teil der anderen Arbeiten haben […]
Dear interested reader, colleagues, friends and families, we are pleased to welcome you to our blog “Deep-Sea Microbial Food Webs and Volcanism in the Atlantic Ocean”. Our interdisciplinary and international team from Cologne, Vienna, Kiel and Oldenburg is currently on its way to Panama. On the 8th of July, there will be the departure of […]
Hello world, greetings from the scientists of the cruise MSM63 – PERMO on RV Maria S. Merian! We just left Southampton and set sail northwards to our first survey area, the southern Viking Graben in the central North Sea. There we will first collect bathymetric data to check if the area is suitable for […]