Yes, it was a long time ago when I posted on this blog. The reason for my long silence was coordinating the GoJelly H2020 project, where all of our activities were reported mainly through the project homepage (www.gojelly.eu).I am back with a piece of exciting news! Yesterday, we deployed the first model of our microplastic […]
Moments of aftermath!
On January 8th we launched officially our Horizon 2020 Project „GoJelly“. The project is supported by the European commission to address marine litters by using jellyfish as an innovative and also new source for biotech-based researches which is unique worldwide in the structure we proposed. The main focus is to investigate in an anti-microplastic filter […]
POS520: Exciting Discoveries / Spannende Entdeckungen
Oceanographic pioneer Maurice Ewing is reported to have advised his students that the key to discovery is to take a new instrument to a place where no one has explored before. The midwater research conducted off the Cape Verde Islands during Poseidon Cruise 520 is a fine example of that research philosophy. The unique combination […]
POS520: My dive into the deep / Mein Tauchgang in das unendliche Blau
by Nuno Vieira (INDP) During POS520 I help my German colleagues to collect environmental data with a CTD and water sampler rosette. I filter seawater samples taken in different depths to determine its oxygen content, and I assist in operating the Microstructure Probe which is used to profile the vertical current structure of the ocean. […]
POS520: Searching for traces in the open ocean / Auf Spurensuche im offenen Ozean
(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 […]
POS520: Exploring the water column with manned submersible JAGO / Mit Tauchboot JAGO im Freiwasser unterwegs
(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 […]
POS520 Cape Verde Cruise / POS520 Fahrt um die Kapverden
(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, […]
To be (complete) or not to be- That is the question
We finally published our research article on the choice of regeneration in the invasive comb jelly. you can follow the PR, as well as a link to the paper here: https://www.geomar.de/en/news/article/wundheilung-oder-neue-koerperteile-die-umwelt-entscheidet/ Here you can also find an interesting short movie on how we cut the larvae into half. complete larvae has two tentacles and were […]
Science, Not Silence
that is the top slogan for tomorrow’s march. 22nd April is named as “Earth Day” and gets celebrated worldwide since 1970. This year, however, will be a special event after all what had happened during and after the US presidential election when Donald Trump called climate change as a bluff: http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-scientists-politics-trump-20170209-story.html organizers of “March for […]
Amazing close-up image of a deep sea jellyfish
Ocean Explorer (http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/) has sighted a deep sea jellyfish trachymedusae, a real treat for the eyes: http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/okeanos/explorations/ex1702/dailyupdates/media/video/dive06_jellyfish/jellyfish.html