(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 […]
(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 […]
(Deutsche Version unten) Between the 14 Feb and 1 May 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: Karen Osborn, Curator of Marine Invertebrates at […]
(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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Yesterday the first major workshop at the brand new Ocean Science Centre Mindelo (OSCM), the International Workshop on Marine & Atmospheric Science in West Africa, started with an icebreaker event. We met many old friends who shared with us the long way of proposing, planning and constructing the OSCM. We could also welcome some new […]
Preparations for the scientific operation of GEOMAR research station started After two and a half years of construction, the new GEOMAR research station in Mindelo, Cape Verde, has been completed. Now the preparations for the scientific operation of the Ocean Science Center Mindelo have begun. The project is a cooperation of the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre […]
After a delayed start due to technical problems we decided to concentrate on water column sampling and acoustic surveys of the Goldeneye area for the time that we have left. We are very excited to finally get some water samples to characterise the bottom water chemistry in the region. Multibeam and Parasound transects provide us […]
Hello World, Next in our program was the deployment of 14 Ocean Bottom Electric (OBE) field receivers from the Ocean Bottom Instrument Consortium (OBIC). A recent development is the vertical arm so that 6 stations recorded not only the horizontal but also the vertical electric field. Deployment of the OBEs extended over two sessions with […]