This is the first blog from GAME 2026 Learning to listenWhat does the ocean sound like? There is the wind moving across Akkeshi Bay, deer grazing in the woods next to the ocean, and the soft rhythm of the waves against the jetty. Moreover, there is a fox foraging along the shore (かわいい。- kawaii), the […]

This post is the last blog of the GAME 2025 project. Unfortunately, it was delayed by several months (the project ended in December 2025), but it was not forgotten. Read now about the extraordinary and dramatic experiences that Andrea and Sarah made in Cabo Verde in 2025. In April 2025, GAME returned once again to […]

On Åland, the seasons change quickly and vividly. In summer, the nights never really grow dark as the sun hovers just below the horizon. Only a few months later, autumn creeps in and softly cloaks the island in darkness again. The rhythm of the seasons is mirrored by the biological station itself; researchers, professors, and […]

It’s an early morning in the northern part of Penang Island, Malaysia. The sun is slowly rising over the horizon, casting golden reflections on the still calm sea as our boat hums towards the research station. The wind grazes our faces and the air is filled by the splashes of the salty sea. The green […]

Welcome to Chile! Muchos saludos desde Chile! Team Chile greets you from the southern hemisphere. Let us introduce ourselves: We are Lou & Bianca and we want to talk a bit about how the only southern hemisphere team in GAME 2025 is experiencing autumn and winter in Chile – instead of spring and summer like […]

Croeso i Gymru! Welcome to Wales! Among Japan, the Philippines, Malaysia, Cape Verde, Chile, Finland and Spain, Wales is back as a location for this year’s GAME project! We are Stefanie and Clara and will be conducting our experiments over the summer here at the beautiful northwest coast of Wales. Stefanie is studying biology at […]

Mabuhay from Team Philippines! For the first time in the programme’s history, GAME takes place in the tropical country of – The Philippines! Composed of 7641 islands, the Philippines is an archipelagic country, surrounded by the waters of the South China Sea on its western seaboard and the Pacific Ocean on its eastern seaboard. Literally […]

For those who have never heard of GAME: the acronym stands for Global Approach by Modular Experiments, an internationally oriented research and training program in marine ecology that is in existence for over two decades now. Every year, young researchers from around the world – from Finland to Malaysia, from Japan to Chile – work […]

Editor’s note: This is an addendum to the GAME Project 2024. Unfortunately, Team Finland’s blog was not edited in time last autumn, which is why we are delivering it now. Enjoy! Hei from Åland! We are Kristin (Åbo Akademi University) and Stephany (Kiel University), Team Finland at the northernmost study site of GAME 2024. We […]

いらっしゃいませ – welcome! Greetings GAME is back in Japan! Once again, an international two-person team, made up of a German and a Japanese student, is based at the Akkeshi Marine Station on Hokkaido, Japan, to contribute to this year’s pioneering research on the effect of artificial light at night on marine macroalgae. GAME GAME projects […]