Transitions & Connections

For 21 days, the Meteor has passed through the waters of the Atlantic Ocean. Starting our expedition M159 in the southern hemisphere in Recife, Brazil, we worked our way northward to a ship position close to the Cap Verde Islands, where we are about to collect our last mooring for this cruise – the Cape […]

The Meteorological Station

The R/V Meteor has a meteorological station from the German Weather Service (Deutscher Wetterdienst, DWD) and a technician to operate it on board. In 1964, the previous Meteor was the first research vessel with a meteorological station operated by the DWD. When the ship was replaced by the current Meteor in 1986, a meteorological station […]

Data Collection at Sea

As a computer scientist I am used to working with different types of data collected from various sources. Recently, I started my PhD in the MarData program that aims at bringing together – amongst others – computer science and oceanography. “That’s cool!”, I thought, “just another kind of data to do analyses on!”. But the […]

The Life We Cannot See

And last but not least: we do not have idea yet, what it could be. But maybe can you recognise what kind of organism it is and give us an answer or clue?

Ocean is not only home to wildlife that we can observe with our own eyes, such as big mammals, fishes and seaweed. There are also small living organisms, which we do not always know about, because we do not see them with our naked eyes. In Ocean Science, to see beneath the ocean surface, the […]