01.03.2018

POS520: Exciting Discoveries / Spannende Entdeckungen

Bruce Robison, MBARI, climbing out of JAGO after a dive down to 350 m, welcomed back on board by the two technicians Peter and Ede / Bruce Robinson (MBARI) verlässt nach einem Tauchgang bis in 350 Metern Tiefe das Tauchboot JAGO. Die beiden Techniker Peter und Ede begrüßen ihn zurück an Deck. Photo: Karen Hissmann/JAGO-Team

Oceanographic pioneer Maurice Ewing is reported to have advised his students that the key to discovery is to take a new instrument to a place where no one has explored before. The midwater research conducted off the Cape Verde Islands during Poseidon Cruise 520 is a fine example of that research philosophy. The unique combination […]

28.02.2018

POS520: My dive into the deep / Mein Tauchgang in das unendliche Blau

Meeresbiologe Nuno Vieira - hier mit JAGO-Pilot JürgenSchauer - ist der erste Kapverdier, der in einem Tauchboot die Unterwasserwelt seiner Heimat erkundete. / Nuno Vieira - here with JAGO pilot Jürgen Schauer - became the first Capo Verdean who went down in a manned submersible to observe the underwater world in the blue waters off an Capo Verden Island. Photo: Karen Hissmann/JAGO-Team

by Nuno Vieira (INDP) During POS520 I help my German colleagues to collect environmental data with a CTD and water sampler rosette. I filter seawater samples taken in different depths to determine its oxygen content, and I assist in operating the Microstructure Probe which is used to profile the vertical current structure of the ocean. […]

27.02.2018

POS520: Searching for traces in the open ocean / Auf Spurensuche im offenen Ozean

Veronique Merten im Tauchboot JAGO / Veronique Merten in the submersible JAGO. Photo: Jürgen Schauen/JAGO-Team

(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 […]

26.02.2018

POS520: Exploring the water column with manned submersible JAGO / Mit Tauchboot JAGO im Freiwasser unterwegs

Das Team des bemannten Tauchbootes JAGO / The Team of the manned submersible JAGO. Photo: Karen Hissmann /JAGO - Team

(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 […]

21.02.2018

POS520 Cape Verde Cruise / POS520 Fahrt um die Kapverden

POSEIDON vor der Kapverden Insel Fogo / RV POSEIDON off the Cape Verdean island of Fogo. Photo Karen Hissmann / JAGO-Team

(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, […]

29.10.2014

Der Start ins Leben: ein Sprint und ein Ritt auf der Strömung

Wissenschaftler verfolgen Meeresschildkröten-Babys mit winzigen Sendern 23.10.2014/Kiel. Mit Hilfe von winzig kleinen akustischen Sendern verfolgten Wissenschaftler des GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel, der Turtle Foundation und der Queen Mary University of London auf den Kapverdischen Inseln erstmals die Wege frisch geschlüpfter Unechter Karettschildkröten. Die Tiere durchqueren zügig die Küstengewässer, in denen sie leicht zur Beute […]

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