Questions from a school class A number of the scientists and crew taking part in SO242-2 are based in Bremen, Germany. We have received a number of interesting questions from year 6 students attending the International School Bremen, sent to us by their teacher, Martyn Robinson-Slater. We in this blog will try and answer some […]
To do list: – cleaning and organizing the Lab … check – organizing and building equipment … check – collecting animals … check – building pilot study set up … check – doing pilot study … check – building main study set up … check – becoming friends … check […]
Today we present the benthic crawler “Tramper” and it first steps at the seafloor in 4150m water depth. Tramper was designed and constructed within the HGF Allianz ROBEX (http://www.robex-allianz.de/) to measure oxygen concentration in the sediment autonomously over a longer period (up to one year). During this expedition we performed the first in situ test […]
“Wer bringt heute den Müll raus?” – an dieser Frage sollen schon WGs und sogar Ehen gescheitert sein. Müll ist lästig und kaum jemand beschäftigt sich gern mit ihm. Gleichzeitig produzieren wir alle so viel davon, dass er mittlerweile auch an unerwünschten Orten auftaucht, an Stränden und in den Meeren zum Beispiel. Eine gut organisierte […]
They say, being on the sea makes people creative. It happened to me as well and here is my story and a short video about jellyfish. “My English popular name is Jellyfish. Today I am going to tell you my amazing story, how we can build a jellyfish world under the sea. First of all, […]
In addition to a direct disturbance by an industrial collection of nodules at the seafloor, potential impacts of nodule mining are connected to the associated generation of sediment plumes and their dispersal. This may vastly extend the area that is affected by mining activities. Deep-sea sediments are typically very fine and easily eroded – it […]
On Wednesday, we arrived in Lysekil in Sweden, just in time to enjoy an amazing sunset. Today, on Thursday, we made a day trip to The Sven Lovén Centre for Marine Sciences in Kristineberg, just across the Gullmarsfjord. Together with the partner station in Tjärnö, one hour north of Kristineberg, it is Sweden’s largest […]
Our ROV (remotely operated vehicle) substitutes our eyes and arms at depth, but the amount of instrumentation it is able to carry (the so-called payload) is limited to the available space and weight of the payload in water since the ROV is kept buoyant by its own floatation (the yellow syntactic foam on the upper […]
In der vergangenen Woche präsentierten sich Kiel und die Kieler Meereswissenschaften als gute Gastgeber. Sogar die Sonne schien und die Förde funkelte in wunderbarem Spätsommerlicht, als mehr als 250 Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler aus 35 Ländern zur einwöchigen SOLAS-Konferenz angereist kamen. Sie genossen spannende Vorträge, Workshops und Diskussionen. SOLAS steht für Surface Ocean – Lower Atmosphere […]
When I was in Australia a couple of years ago, I booked a dive trip to the Great Barrier Reef. I arrived at the given time at the pier and because the instructor was late, I started a second little breakfast – I ate a banana. A guy showed up with a grin on his […]