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 […]
Quallen im Quizschau
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 […]
Current topics in marine ecology
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 […]
What are mesocosm studies?
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:
Jelly Killers
As of yesterday (http://www.n24.de/n24/Nachrichten/Panorama/d/7415090/qualle-toetet-deutsche-touristin.html), a young German tourist was died after being stung by a Box Jelly in Thailand. That was really sad to see how a young life come to an end at the age of 19!! There are something basic to know about jellyfish sting before you start a world tour, or at […]
Jellyfish Soup
They say, being on the sea makes people creative. It happened to me as well and here is my story and a short video about jellyfish. “My English popular name is Jellyfish. Today I am going to tell you my amazing story, how we can build a jellyfish world under the sea. First of all, […]
Time for Fika
On Wednesday, we arrived in Lysekil in Sweden, just in time to enjoy an amazing sunset. Today, on Thursday, we made a day trip to The Sven Lovén Centre for Marine Sciences in Kristineberg, just across the Gullmarsfjord. Together with the partner station in Tjärnö, one hour north of Kristineberg, it is Sweden’s largest […]
About yellow fruits, the ship’s kobold and masculine domains
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, […]