The mesocosms were passing the North Sea and the English channel during the last couple of days. Consistent westerly winds created some waves. These, and strong currents slowed us down. We were running with only two knots on friday evening but were are back to normal now. Solid 8 knots while entering the Biskaya. We […]
Ready to go
Today, scientific equipment, our dear working boat Wassermann and six mesocosms were loaded onboard research vessel POSEIDON at Seefischmarkt, Kiel. Rain and snow made sure everybody is very much looking forward to going to the Canaries… All pictures by Maike Nicolai, GEOMAR
Container Packing
Three mesocosms, tubes, the famous pretzel salt, plankton wheels, filtering racks, carboys, canisters, fenders, survival suits, and boxes, boxes, boxes… Yesterday and today, the KOSMOS 2014 GC team packed their material for the container ship transport to Gran Canaria. We’re almost ready to go! All pictures by Maike Nicolai, GEOMAR
Collecting Saharan dust at Cape Verde
„Why the hell do you go to Cape Verde to collect Saharan dust??“ was the question that Mirja was confronted with several times by the locals at Cape Verde in October. Of course it would be much easier to collect the sand straight from the Sahara desert in one day instead of mounting boxes on […]
Welcome to the KOSMOS 2014 Gran Canaria Blog
Welcome to the KOSMOS 2014 Gran Canaria Blog! On this site, we will report regularly about work and life in Taliarte, Gran Canaria. Right now, everybody is busy packing boxes and bags. A lot of things have to be planned and organised until the experiment can start in the end of January 2014. Even three […]