**** english version below **** … eine Seefahrt, die ist schön,… so beginnt ein altes Volkslied und in der Tat: Zur See fahren hat schon seinen ganz besonderen Reiz. Mich als Wissenschaftler fasziniert der offene Ozean immer wieder aufs Neue. Ich halte mich jetzt mal mit Beschreibungen hierzu zurück, da man den Ozean einfach auf […]
(English version below) 2017 ist ein ganz besonderes Jahr für die Deutsch-Kapverdische Zusammenarbeit zwischen dem GEOMAR und dem Instituto Nacional de Desenvolvimento das Pescas (INDP). In Mindelo soll dieses Jahr das Ocean Science Centre Mindelo (OSCM) eröffnet werden. Die Kapverdischen Inseln sind schon lange ein wichtiger Standort für die Forschung und durch die enge Kooperation […]
Right after New Year’s Day a team of GEOMAR and INDP scientists and technicians have successfully deployed a pair of two oceanographic SLOCUM gliders. The two gliders were prepared on land at INDP and later deployed from RV Islandia south of the island of Santo Antao. The two gliders are equipped with a suite of […]
„Why the hell do you go to Cape Verde to collect Saharan dust??“ was the question that Mirja was confronted with several times by the locals at Cape Verde in October. Of course it would be much easier to collect the sand straight from the Sahara desert in one day instead of mounting boxes on […]
A new multi-facetted and interdisciplinary research project was recently launched at CVOO. The project investigates biogeochemical and ecological processes within mesoscale water masses, so-called eddies, in the vicinity of Cape Verde. Since the establishment of CVOO, long-term mooring-based observations revealed a couple of unexpected biogeochemical and physical anomalies in the upper ocean. Strong hypoxic to […]
An emergency recovery of a DOLAN-type surface buoy was conducted on July 24th by the CVOO team of Cape Verde. Colleagues from the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) informed CVOO about a drifting surface buoy which originally was part of an oceanographic mooring 290 nautical miles northeast of CVOO (off Cape Blanc, Mauritania). […]