When I was in Australia a couple of years ago, I booked a dive trip to the Great Barrier Reef. I arrived at the given time at the pier and because the instructor was late, I started a second little breakfast – I ate a banana. A guy showed up with a grin on his […]
Looking into the 5%
“To date, we have explored less than five percent of the ocean.” That leaves only the %95 of the ocean to be discovered! You might wonder, which part of this unexplored world we chose to investigate during our “Praktikum auf See” excursion? We started from the Baltic Sea, continue with Danish Strait (Kattegat) and reach […]
Hej, Velkommen
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, […]
Jellymeters on the Board of RS ALKOR
The sun stands smooth above taking off to the Bornholm Basin. Everybody with a smiley face and ready to start the great adventure. This “Praktikum auf See” is a training course for Master students of biological oceanography at GEOMAR in Kiel. While learning different sampling methods, may these be benthic or pelagic, we will investigate […]
Museums Nacht
Wahscheinlich habt ihr in den letzen Zwei Wochen viel über die Quallen gehört und gelesen. Falls ihr dasran interessiert seid, besuchen sie unser Kiel Aquarium bei der Museums Nacht am Freitag den 28.09. Hier findet ihr mehr Info: http://www.museumsnacht-kiel.de/
long live the jellyfish (Lang lebe die Qualle)
When I sat at the computer to write my very first blog-posting, I went through a lot of options how to start it! Finally I decided to cheer the jellyfish! Why? Not because jellyfish have inhabited the seas for more than 500 million years and not because they are beautiful creatures when they pose their […]