The same procedure as every year, “James”. The last of the KOSMOS 2014 participants pack up and prepare to head home… We made it… see you again in a few months for the same procedure again….as every “year”. […]
Unexpected Discoveries about Rising Sea Levels
Scientists working on the indoor microcosms experiments in Gran Canaria have warned about rising sea levels after startling discoveries. After placing bottles into tanks, it was observed that the water level rose by a couple of centimetres. Marine Chemist Maria Müller warned, “These are only a few bottles causing a significant rise in water level. […]
The last mesocosm sampling
One week ago we were out at the mesocosms for the last time, taking samples out of the big bags. It is a strange feeling to know that the main experiment is over now and to realize that the end of the project is nearing. You can feel how some sort of melancholy starts to […]
Lab impressions
Being a student assistant (HiWi) enables many insights into different side experiments and lots of interesting work that is going on during the KOSMOS project. Personally I think it is remarkable how fast and efficient people have worked on alternative experiments after the first storm. Despite the low quality of my camera and my lacking […]
What to do when it’s too bumpy on the water
Due to rough weather, wind and wave conditions (you might have heard about that), we couldn’t fill the mesocosm gas samples on Wassermann as usual, but transferred our work to the pier for the last few days. As this spot is also exposed to the wind, there were some new challenges we had to deal […]
An unexpected but fruitful cruise onboard the R/V POSEIDON
Four-days cruise in the R/V POSEIDON. 16 CTD-rosette casts to a maximum depth of 3000 m, 12 net-hauls down to 750 m, and 6 eXpendable BathyThermograph (XBT) and drifter deployments. This was the result of collateral science that rose out of the KOSMOS ’14 GC project. Because… Did anybody really expect that climatic adversities would […]
Set-up instead of upset!
Even though most of us were quite shocked about the announcing of the end of the experiment we soon started to switch from upset to a new set-up! After several days of brainstorming and multiple meetings with intensive discussions our “Microcosmos” set-up was starting to get more and more concrete. Great ideas and help were […]
Abtauchen für die Zukunft unserer Ozeane
Gastbeitrag von Constanze Bückner, Gewinnerin des 2. Preises im Wettbewerb „Unsere Erde 2050 Die Welt der Zukunft“ Ich habe nicht damit gerechnet, dass mich meine Überlegungen zum Leben in Deutschland im Jahr 2050 auf ein deutsches Forschungsschiff vor der Küste Gran Canarias führen könnten. Doch im Februar 2014 war es soweit. Mein zweiter Platz beim […]
World premiere: collecting 80,000 litres of deep-ocean water
Let’s simulate deep-water upwelling in our mesocosms. Easy to say – but how do you collect 80,000 litres of water from 400 m water depth off-shore and deliver it to the KOSMOS playground? Pumping it with a long hose lowered to depth into a huge bag on-board R/V POSEIDON and ship it to shore? Considering […]
Somewhere over the rainbow…
This is the other side of the bad weather at Melenara beach – and it raises hope for buckets full of gold… Or unicorns- both good for Science ;D
(Sorry for the bad quality, didn’t have a nice camera at hand to take a true panoramic shot!)