The M133 Christmas Sketch (written by Elisabeth Thölken) Story: Poseidon calls for a census across the Atlantic Ocean. This notice includes Arielle and her prince. They have to travel to Atlantis to register for the census, but when they arrive and look for a place to stay, everybody turns them down because the Prince is […]

Weihnachten auf See. Für viele von uns war es ein ganz besonderes Erlebnis, das Weihnachtsfest fern ab von Freunden und Familien, im Kreise der METEOR Familie zu feiern. In allen Bereichen wurden in der Freizeit Sonderschichten geschoben. Die Messe wurde mit Tischdecken weihnachtlich geschmückt. Zwei Bäume wurden aufgestellt und kunstvoll geschmückt. Die Speisekarte wurde besonders […]

On time at 10:00 am the METEOR left the pier of the port of Cape Town. We are leaving our colleagues of POLARSTERN behind who will depart tomorrow evening. For me as the chief scientist on board this is the day we all have been working towards to since many weeks. All paper work is […]

Maybe every 10 years the METEOR and POLARSTERN meet in the same port. And today is one of those days. POLARSTERN had just complete a floating university transect between Germany and Cape Town while METEOR spend 4 weeks in the upwelling region of Namibia to research ocean dynamics. For POLARSTERN the next expedition brings her […]

From Sunday to Wednesday 22 marine scientist met at the University of Cape Town in South Africa to prepare for the M133 Expedition. The participants are from South Africa, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, France and Germany and mostly at the Master or PhD level. Most of us met for the first time and enjoyed the hospitality […]