Die erste spannende Woche auf See liegt nun hinter uns. Und was soll man sagen? Der Leitspruch „having a plan, but being flexible“ ist voll aufgegangen. Die Messungen im Verlauf der Wasser- und Luftmassen laufen und die ersten Interpretationen der Ergebnisse haben begonnen. Der vorerst südlichste Bereich der Forschungsfahrt ist erreicht und der Kurs steht […]
-English version below- Es ist zwei Uhr nachts und ich komme gerade vom Bug der Sonne, wo ich eine unserer ersten Luftproben in einem Edelstahlbehälter, der ein bisschen so aussieht wie ein Rugbyball, gesammelt habe. Als die Probenpumpe warm laufen musste, hatte ich wieder einmal ein paar Minuten Zeit in den dunklen Himmel über dem […]
The SO287-CONNECT press release 13.12.2021/Las Palmas de Gran Canaria/Kiel. Across the Atlantic Ocean, a large current carries seawater from Africa across the Atlantic into the Sargasso Sea and all the way to the Caribbean. The biogeochemical processes that take place along the way have hardly been researched so far. An international team led by GEOMAR […]
Eine deutsche Version ist weiter unten zu finden. Part four: Digging deep and saying goodbye! The methods we had a look at so far are all geophysical, indirect methods, because the measurements of the rocks/sediments below the sea level are done without collecting any samples. Often, geophysical data can be acquired fairly easily and fast, […]
Eine deutsche Version ist weiter unten zu finden. So far, we only had a look at methods, which are sensitive for acoustic properties of the water, the seafloor and underground. However, there are physical parameters which show strong differences between salty and freshened water and make it easier to distinguish between these two. For example, […]
Eine deutsche Version ist weiter unten zu finden. In the last entry, we mostly had a look at the water column with so called acoustic methods, which are using the properties of sound moving through water. Most of the instruments are mounted to the hull of the vessel and are fairly reliable. But so far, […]
Eine deutsche Version ist weiter unten zu finden. Just as Sherlock Holmes is only as good a detective as he is, since he considers all the evidence he can find and does not rely on fingerprints alone, here in the Gulf of St Lawrence, we apply all the methods available to us, in order to […]
Eine deutsche Version ist weiter unten zu finden. Welcome back! Now, let me tell you who the royal adventurers (because of PRINCE, get it?) are on this journey. On this ship, we are 24 crew people and 21 scientists. We scientists are further categorizable as follows: 7 Doctoral Candidates (DC), 5 Student Assistants (HiWi), 3 […]
Welcome to our PRINCE blog! Here it is! Our first blogpost of the MSM103 expedition. It took us a while to get things going here on the side and we have been on board for a while, so let me give you a brief summary of what happened so far: Saturday the 11th of September […]
Back in October of 2020, deciding to move to a new country where I didn’t speak or understand the language at the height of a worldwide pandemic to pursue MSc. Biological Oceanography was a challenge I never thought I could overcome, but here we are in September 2021! Truth be told, two semesters of just […]