There is a nervous energy onboard the RV Sonne today, as we approach the “40 hour station”. The idea is that we will place ourselves in a certain location, bring the engines of the Sonne to a stop, and then perform repeated sampling of the same water mass over almost two full days. In this […]
Sunday, 13.07.2014: Bergfest and World Cup Final On Sunday evening half of the SO234-2 cruise was already over. Time has gone by quite fast while we were busy with our station work or lectures. As is the tradition we celebrated the middle of the cruise with a “Bergfest”, the time when you reach the top […]
By Bruno Nogueira Lobo, Team Brazil Hi everyone! It is time to write about our work in Brazil. We arrived in Niterói in April and we started with our pilot studies already soon after this. However, from the beginning on we had various problems. First, like many of this year’s GAME teams, we needed to […]
08.07-13.07.2014 (Durban/South Africa – 27° S, 24° E) Here is the first Weekly Report from our SPACES (Science Partnerships for the Assessment of Complex Earth System Processes) SONNE SO234-2 cruise, a training and capacity building cruise for students from southern Africa and Germany. Fifteen students from South Africa, Namibia and Germany are participating, along with […]
Ohhh!!! Is it Day 6 or Day 7 today? It is day 6. We forgot counting the days! That’s how fantastic being on a cruise can be. We lose track of time because we are occupied by our exciting measurements and all the new inputs. We just passed the Southern tip of Madagascar which shows […]
Day 4 and 5 of our cruise held some interesting surprises for us, and we learned first hand that sometimes things on a research vessel might not turn out as planned. After a long day of CTD measurements and filtration of water samples at our second sample station, we were eager to hear that against […]
On the fourth day (11.7.14) we are getting more and more familiar to the daily life and the routines aboard. Also the hissing sound from the vacuum toilet isn’t scaring us anymore. After getting up and brushing our teeth, the smiley face in the bathroom mirror is telling us that an extraordinary day has to […]
Zum Ende des Sommersemesters öffnet die Muthesius Kunsthochschule Kiel wieder alle Atelier- und Werkstatttüren und lädt vom 23. bis zum 25. Juli 2014 zum Besuch der Jahresausstellung “Einblick-Ausblick 2014″ ein. Alle Ateliers, Werkstätten und Seminarräume der Kunsthochschule werden zu Ausstellungsräumen. Hier zeigen die Studierenden zwischen 10 und 20 Uhr die Arbeitsergebnisse des zurückliegenden Studienjahres. Eine […]
The morning brought fair weather and calmer seas. There was business as usual, with breakfast occurring at 7:30am, and although the shift in time meant that everyone had gotten an hour less to sleep, most of participants made it more or less on time! Morning lectures on oceanic and atmospheric chemistry followed. Lectures have – […]
Introduction The SO234-2 research cruise will lead from Durban, South Africa to Port Louis, Mauritius. 9 scientists, 15 students, 1 observer and 25 crew members of the German research vessel SONNE set out from Durban on July 8th 2014 to investigate chemical and physical conditions of the West Indian Ocean and the atmosphere above it […]