The JellyMeter blog focuses on jellyfish ecology: how they interact with their environment, how they become successful invasive and what they do in the deep sea. More info
The problem with such strict and frequent sampling schedules on research vessels is that night shifts are inevitable; the time and financial restraints of such a cruise mean that you cannot afford to wait around at a station until the sun is up, the weather is favourable, and more importantly, the personnel are awake! The […]
Now that Leila and Julia have already described life on board of the research vessel Poseidon, it’s time to talk about the ship itself. With its 40 years of travelling the seas, Poseidon is the Old Lady of the German research fleet. It is 60.8 m long, 11.4 m wide and has a draught of […]
Welcome to our new home, on board Poseidon. We are 8 students on a research cruise for our Master program in Biological Oceanography at the GEOMAR. It has been 10 days now and we are amazed by how much we have learnt and achieved in such a short time. Despite the tight sampling schedule and […]
After two days and the first 15 sampling stations we arrived in Malmö, Sweden on Sunday, October 2nd at 9 o’clock in the morning. With around 312.000 inhabitants, Malmö is the third largest city of Sweden. On our way to Malmö we passed under the Øresundbridge, which is the world longest combined railway and motorway […]
It is time to pack again and get ready for the next cruise. This year we go on board of the Research Vessel POSEIDON, also known as the “old lady” of the German marine research fleet. Together with my colleagues Dr. Christian Pansch and Dr. Andrea Barco we are going to train eight students […]
Endlich sind die ersten Nachrichten des Jahres über Quallen in der Kieler Förde raus. Die Fragen wiederholen sich oft: Was ist das für eine Qualle? Gibt es eine Quallenplage dieses Jahr? Wie gefährlich sind sie? etc. Ich werde versuchen alle meine Interviews hier zu posten, sodass nach eine Weile eine Seite mit FAQ zustande kommt.
Tim Samuel, ein Profi-photograph hat eine seltene Aufnahme auf seiner Homepage gepostet, auf der eine kleiner Fisch im Magen einer Qualle zu sehen ist (http://www.timsamuelphotography.com/). Im seiner Interview mit CNN (unabhängig davon was ich von dem Nachrichtendienst halte) hat der Photograph seine Beobachtung beschrieben. Er hat das phänomen als eine Qualle gesehen die den Fisch […]
Was hat ein englischer Geschäftsmann auf den Markt gebracht? A) Qualleneis, das im Dunkeln leuchtet B) Chilisoße, die brennbar ist C) Pizza, die sich in der Mikrowelle um das fünffache vergrößert Das war eine der Fragen in der Sendung “Wer weiss denn so was?” in der ARD: http://www.daserste.de/unterhaltung/quiz-show/wer-weiss-denn-sowas/index.html Die Antwort: Herr Charlie Harry Francis hat […]
it was my turn to give a lecture on jellyfish ecology for M.Sc. students of biological oceanography. The lecture is set to introduce current topics involved in our department and our contributions to it as scientists. For the round table, where students select a paper to be discussed, we had three papers. the one that […]
You might heard about “mesocosm studies” and their contribution to the estimation of global warming or ocean acidification on planktonic community. here you will find more visualized information about our mesocosm experiment we did some years a go: