By Anne-Sophie Fortin Let me introduce to you the scientific crew aboard the M184 Cruise. The chief scientist of this expedition is Johannes who takes care of the general smooth running of scientific activities on board. He can rely on Sunke (also a co-chief scientist), Félix, and Fehmi, the CTD watch leaders, and on the […]
By Anne-Sophie Fortin August 11-12, 2022 The water is still in the harbour by night. Shrouded in what seems like a perpetual mist, the Meteor is waiting patiently. People step aboard the ship in small waves and wash up in their beds, exhausted from their long flights. As the sun rise, the crew finalizes the […]
***deutsche Version siehe weiter unten*** Teaser: Scientists are concerned about surface active compounds (known as surfactants) in any air-sea exchange processes nowadays. During our ongoing research in the Baltic Sea, scientists from IOW and GEOMAR came together on RV EMB295 to address the question of how surfactants in surface seawater of the Baltic Sea control […]
By Christa Marandino, Tim Steffens, Tobias Spreitz, David Ho ***deutsche Version siehe weiter unten*** How does the ocean influence climate? We know that heat is taken up by the ocean, but what about climate-active trace gases? Does the ocean emit them or take them up? How much is the ocean emitting or absorbing? Is air-sea […]
By Helen Czerski ***deutsche Version siehe weiter unten*** 07.07.2022 One of the privileges of living at sea is that you live inside the rhythm of the ocean, rolling with the ship as the restless water shifts beneath you. Our metal home is part of the boundary between the atmosphere and the ocean, and the movement […]
In the framework of HOTMIC a summer school on microplastics will be held in September 2022. Background During the last decade, microplastics have been recognized as a globally emergent pollutant in aquatic and terrestrial environments and as such they received great attention by scientists, the media and politicians. However, we still know astonishingly little about […]
[deutsche Version unten] 7th Weekly Report(4th April – 8th April 2022) Our last station (station 44) was conducted in the early morning of April 4. Immediately after the station was finished, we departed for Noumea, and started analysing the last set of samples, clearing our laboratories and packing our boxes and loading the containers.The packing […]
[Deutsche Version unten] Weekly Report SO289 Progress: We have had a successful week, following our unplanned detour to Tahiti. We commenced sampling again on March 23 and have been able to conduct daily station occupations with CTD casts and in situ pump deployments (Fig. 1). The weather has been variable with winds up to force […]
Guten Tag from the fabulous mercury duo! We are Alina (PhD Student, University of Pau) on board for the Marine Mercury Lab at the Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography Marseille and Kati (Postdoc, GEOMAR). Our mission on this cruise is to provide new observations on all chemical forms of mercury (called Hg species) in the South […]
Hey there, This is the second GEOTRACES cruise I have attended. Back in Kiel I am taking part in the bachelor’s program Biochemistry and molecular biology. I have been working as a research assistant in Eric Achterberg’s lab at GEOMAR for the last two years, and I am very happy to join them on the […]