Hello from the tip of Greenland. After two days of semi-smooth sailing, we saw Greenland for the first time this morning and reached the southernmost point of our cruise. From now on, it’s only getting colder, the days are getting longer, and the work gets harder:) To recap on the last three days: we set […]

Hello, my name is Xuewei Jin, and I’m a master’s student from Shanghai Jiaotong University. What a crazy thing to be able to participate in the Maria S. Merian cruise to collect seawater samples along the Greenlandic coastline and in unsurveyed east Greenland fjords! The research expedition Polar Beast is my first international science experince […]

Hi from somewhere a few hours west of Iceland! I’m Apsara P. Vijayan, a chemical Oceanographer from India. I am so excited to participate in the research expedition POLAR BEAST, organized by the GEOMAR-Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research. This will be my third ocean expedition, my first time in the polar ocean, and my first […]

So, this is the first time I could take part in a research cruise, everything is so ‘fresh’ for me. We departed from university campus in Shenzhen 3 days ago, crossing from mainland China to Hongkong on July 06th, then flew to Iceland via Germany. It took us two days in to arrive in Reykjavík. […]

by Riel Carlo O. Ingeniero Due to an unforeseen event (see cruise report for more details), we have to cut our research expedition short and head back to Singapore. The R/V Sonne has been docked at the Singapore Cruise Centre at the HarbourFront in Singapore for a week now. Today, we will be disembarking from […]

von Kira Lange, GEOMAR Helmholtz Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel Bzzz bzzz. Der Wecker klingelt morgens um 3.45 Uhr. Der erste verschlafene Blick des Tages geht auf DSHIP. DSHIP ist eine Plattform, auf der die Position des Schiffs und der CTD, einem Gerät, mit dem man Salzgehalt, Temperatur, Tiefe und weitere Parameter messen kann, angezeigt wird. […]

By Kira Lange, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel Bzzz bzzz. The alarm rings at 3.45 am. Still half asleep, we check the ship’s position and status of the Conductivity-Temperature-Depth-device, in short, CTD. At which depth is the CTD? Thank God, there is still 400 m to go. This means there is still enough […]

von Dr. Birgit Quack, GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel Es gibt zwei Bereiche in unserer Atmosphäre, in denen das Spurengas Ozon besonders wichtig ist: in der Stratosphäre und in der Grenzschicht an der Erdoberfläche. In der oberen Region unserer Atmosphäre, der Stratosphäre, entsteht Ozon durch den Zerfall von Sauerstoff im Sonnenlicht und wirkt als wichtiger […]

by Dr. Birgit Quack, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel There are two regions of our atmosphere where the trace gas ozone is especially important: in the stratosphere and in the surface boundary layer. In the upper region of our atmosphere, the stratosphere ozone is produced from the sunlit decay of oxygen and acts […]

by Qingwen Zhong (edited by Riel Ingeniero) I am a PhD student in physical oceanography. SO305 is my second research cruise in the eastern Indian Ocean, but I feel like everything seems new to me, and I am learning a lot from everyone on this cruise. Honestly, this whole experience has been nothing short of […]