The GAME research project in 2018 will focus on the possible effects of ocean warming on chemical communication processes in the sea. This includes foraging responses in predator-prey systems, habitat selection or conspecific recognition. We will concentrate on seafloor habitats in which macroinvertebrates, such as crustaceans and molluscs, but also macroalgae exhibit numerous chemical interactions. […]
Auch in diesem Jahr sind Kolleginnen und Kollegen von uns wieder rund um den Erdball unterwegs, um Geheimnisse der Meere und Ozeane zu entschlüsseln. Welche Expeditionen wo aktuell durchgeführt werden, geplant sind oder stattgefunden haben, zeigt die GEOMAR-Webseite http://www.geomar.de/forschen/expeditionen/. Da wir uns aber im Wissenschaftsjahr mit dem Schwerpunkt “Meere und Ozeane” befinden, interessieren sich noch […]
Gestern haben wir erfolgreich IFM 07, den ersten von zwei Glidern, geborgen. Er ist schon ein alter Hase unter den GEOMAR Glidern und hat sehr zuverlässig viele Messfahrten im Pazifik und Atlantik absolviert. Ähnlich wie Segelflugzeuge in der Luft, schweben Glider durch die Ozeane und können unterschiedliche Parameter messen – je nachdem, welche Messgeräte man […]
In order to understand Ocean-Atmosphere exchange processes, Tim and I went off the Meteor and did a sampling of the top 10 m of the water column with the Zodiac. We took water samples with a Niskin bottle and a pump system in order to understand the structure of the surface layer in a […]
The currents and the biological activity near the coast of Peru are such that nearly all the oxygen disappears between 50 and 500m depth. This affects life from microbes to large fishes. We are currently onboard the FS METEOR to try to understand why and how this occurs. Carolina Cisternas-Novoa and myself, Frédéric Le Moigne […]
After a long and exhausting flight from Europe, we arrived in Lima, Peru, on the 30th of May. Down here we were facing the typical Peruvian winter weather. It was cloudy and rainy and felt almost like Kiel in summer. The next day we went straight to the port of Callao, a place where many […]
Preparations for the scientific operation of GEOMAR research station started After two and a half years of construction, the new GEOMAR research station in Mindelo, Cape Verde, has been completed. Now the preparations for the scientific operation of the Ocean Science Center Mindelo have begun. The project is a cooperation of the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre […]
…not the size of the waves. A mini- El Niño causes increasing oxygen concentrations on the shelf.
Nature of her work. Dr. Lisa Neef is a post-doctoral scientist in a research group that specializes in disentangling natural climate variations from the effects anthropogenic global warming at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research. Her work, in particular, focuses on climate simulations that are constrained by observed data, that is, simulations where the wind, […]
After a delayed start due to technical problems we decided to concentrate on water column sampling and acoustic surveys of the Goldeneye area for the time that we have left. We are very excited to finally get some water samples to characterise the bottom water chemistry in the region. Multibeam and Parasound transects provide us […]