The T-6 sampling experience // La experiencia del muestreo en el T-6

Thanks Jan for your nice way of teaching us how to use the amazing Integrated Sampler Bottle!!!. We had a great time with you and our trace-metals colleagues! Cheers, the Ecophysiology Group from University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria ¡Jan! ¡¡Muchísimas gracias por enseñarnos tan bien cómo utilizar el increíble ISB!! Pasamos un día […]

Nine little large mesocosms sheltering from a storm

(sung to the tune of “Neun kleine Jaegermeister” by Die Toten Hosen) Nine little mesocosms assembled on a pier, huddling round and sitting tight for the windy weather to clear. Nine little mesocosms perched upon a quay, watching the massive swells roll by with fibre-glassy grins of glee. Nine little mesocosms sheltering from a storm, […]

Unloading POSEIDON

Unloading Poseidon in Las Palmas harborFoto: Ulf Riebesell

Anchor weights, KOSMOS frames and bags, buoys, generator, deep-water collector, samplers, sensor, ropes and shekels, iron chains, hoses, cleaning rings, pumps, carts, more ropes, more weights, blinking lights, boxes, boxes and more boxes. In total over 24 tons of equipment arrived in Las Palmas with Poseidon and needed to be unloaded. Along with it came […]