Für mich als ‚alten Hasen‘ freute ich mich diesmal besonders mit einer sehr jungen Truppe von wissenschaftlich interessierten Menschen unterwegs sein zu dürfen. Ich bin für einen Teil der technischen Ausrüstung, die wir an Bord gebracht haben, zuständig und unterrichte unsere Gruppe in der Handhabung der Geräte. Es ist schön, zu erleben, mit welchem Mut, […]

Für mich persönlich ist es die erste große Seereise. Zuerst war ich sehr aufgeregt und auch ein wenig unsicher, da ich nicht genau wusste, was auf mich zukommt. Werde ich mich mit allen gut verstehen? Wie ist das Leben an Bord eines Schiffes? Werde ich seekrank werden? So viele Fragen schwirrten in meinem Kopf herum. […]

¡Buenas!  Mi nombre es Gabi, soy una de las dos estudiantes doctorales argentinas que tuvieron la suerte de participar de esta travesía en barco a través del Atlántico. Soy una fan absoluta de las algas y de la teledetección y como tal me gustaría compartir el siguiente pensamiento:   Gabi

Today is our sixth day on board of the Meteor and we successfully accomplished our fourth Multinet station. Apart from smaller incidents, like the loss of a water sampling bottle and calibration problems of pH and O2 sensors, our Multinet does what it should do: It brings us plankton samples from different water depths on […]

Today, sunday, is the fourth day at sea for us and we are slowly developing a routine. We are divided up into groups of four, each group doing two of six shifts on board – each shift lasts four hours and during that shift we are responsible for doing all the measurements that are scheduled […]

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 […]

by Marco Giorgetta, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Germany 15th of March 2016 on Meteor at 27°S / 33°W Now it is already two days since we visited the last Agulhas ring. Due to the large number of these rings they are just numbered, except the one named “Mareike eddy”, and in Sabrina’s numbering we […]