Hej, Velkommen,
The first day of the trip was a bit of organizing ourselves into teams and tasks: which net has to be taken for each sampling station, how to rinse a flying net, and the most important task, how to communicate with the bridge and the scientists working on deck the same time!!!
Luckily, we found plenty of comb jellies as well as some moon jellies at the first fife stations, before we had to cancel a couple of stations out of the program due to bad weather, before heading to Copenhagen! We abandoned our transect sampling next to the Bornholm Basin and replaced it by a shallower station further west with more shelter from upcoming waves that the wind was about to bring. Here, we stayed for almost 24 hours and took samples of meso- and macrozooplankton every six hours, day and night, yes, day and night. Seawater temperature, salinity, O2, etc. were always sampled over the whole water column down to the bottom.
We left the turbulent night against the high waves and arrived Copenhagen early in the morning today. The Danish capital welcomed us with sunshine and calm waters. At our harbor station in the direct center of Copenhagen, we almost have eye contact with the little mermaid statue.