Saturday, the 27th of January 2018. Today we finally launched the drifter. In the last days we searched for a suitable upwelling-patch off the coast of Mauritania. The drifter has been prepared until late in the night. In the morning, we came closer to the final point of deployment, an area with a fresh upwelling-patch, […]
In the early morning of the 23th of January 2018 the R/V POEIDON left Las Palmas and sailed in the following two days to the coast of Mauritania. During the transit the scientists set up their labs, took initial test measurements and checked the functionality of all their equipment for the upcoming research. Using satellite […]
Las Palmas. Yesterday we started the setup for the upcoming expedition on board the POSEIDON. Almost all of the equipment arrived with the ship in a container, which had to be emptied upon arrival. With all equipment on deck, the setup in the different labs and on deck could start. Melf installed a mast on […]
It`s the first weekend of the year 2018 and the scientific crew of the research cruise POS519, from Las Palmas to Mindelo, is lifting the container with the equipment on board the POSEIDON, which is currently docked in Kiel. The drifter has been safely stored in the wet lab, the boxes with the material for […]
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 […]
After a year of planning and organizing we come closer to the final date of departure for the research expedition POS519. While everybody is packing gifts for Christmas, we are packing our container which will go on board the R/V POSEIDON on January 2018 heading to Las Palmas. In Las Palmas we will start our […]
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 […]
Our system has already been working since the start of the Volvo Ocean Race at the 22.Oct.2017 (Leg1 Alicante to Lisbon) and the race is close to the finish Leg2. Follow the race. Our setup runs on the yacht “Turn the Tide on Plastic” with the Skipper Dee Caffari, Liz Wardley supporting us with the […]