The 10th of March was a special day for the students. The Expedition MSM106 took part in the UN Ocean Decade Ocean Laboratory “A Healthy and Resilient Ocean” as a satellite activity. The students produced a live-stream video from the Atlantic Ocean onboard of R/V Maria S. Merian. Melissa Ndure from Sierra Leone guided the […]
German version below I am Gilles Florent SORO, I come from the Côte d’Ivoire, I have a degree in Biological Sciences from the University Peleforo Gon Coulibaly of Korhogo. Since my childhood, I have always been passionate about studying the environment, so my academic career is in this logic. Today, as a Master of Climate […]
Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be part of a research cruise? Ever since I joined the WASCAL master’s program in Climate Change and Marine Sciences, I have earnestly been waiting for the program’s shipboard training component. My expectations prior to the cruise were quite high as I could not wait to immerse […]
“Nicht nur der wissenschaftliche Erfolg dieser Reise rechtfertigt den Aufwand, auch die ansteckende Begeisterung und die Kooperation sind nach vielen doch recht einsamen Monaten im Home Office eine große Motivation.” Am 2. März 2021 verließ das Forschungsschiff Heincke Bremerhaven mit Ziel Norwegen. Vor dem Start einer Expedition liegen viele Monate Arbeit und Vorbereitung, damit alle […]
Find a list of the projects media coverage. Obviously, I couldn’t compete with the media speed. So, I was not able to gather all articles and videos yet but it is already fascinating what we achieved within the last months – stay tuned. TV: PS-Reportage: Road to Alicante NBC 10 News Sunrise Monday 14th of […]
Great News at the Ocean Summit in Hong Kong as the second Team (AkzoNobel) will jump into the Oceans with our Equipment from Leg 7 onwards next to Turn the Tide on Plastic. My talk did cost me my lunch that day as there were so many interested people in our research activities and possible […]
What a great and fascinating Leg from Cape Town to Melbourne we can look back on. The whole fleet arrived in the Melbourne Docklands. The team was able to take care of our scientific unit despite the extreme conditions and swell. As you can see from the next plot we already acquired a big chunk […]
Cape Town is a wonderful place to visit. The persons i met were nice and the food was great. Besides, the beautiful landscape there was the opportunity for Dr. Toste Tanhua to experience the real Volvo Ocean Race yacht. This was a short recreation time next to the great chance of lots of interviews and […]
The first preliminary results were presented by Dr. Toste Tanhuas Talk on the Ocean Summit in Cape Town got some audience, which listened. The system itself was full functional with minor maintenance needed. Some minor things as a loose screw and precautionary exchange of a small pump after more than roughly 9150 nautical miles were […]
Mit dem Internationalen Workshop on Marine & Atmospheric Science in West Africa vom 13. bis 17. November hat das Ocean Science Centre Mindelo seinen wissenschaftlichen Betrieb aufgenommen. Ab sofort steht es der internationalen Forschung als Logistik-, Konferenz- und Fortbildungszentrum im tropischen Ostatlantik zur Verfügung. Doch welche Räumlichkeiten gibt es im OSCM konkret? Was kann ich […]