Hello! We are Isa and Feli and here comes the first GAME blog in 2017. The aim of this year’s GAME project is to investigate the impact of global warming on the consumption rates of invertebrate herbivores. After the introductory course in March in Kiel, Germany, we travelled to Menai Bridge, a small and beautiful […]
This year GAME celebrates its 15th anniversary and on this occasion we are starting a talk series in which programme alumni will speak about their career paths that followed their participation in GAME. Our first speaker is Sarah Piehl who participated in the first GAME project on the biological effects of microplastics in 2013. In […]
Hello World, Next in our program was the deployment of 14 Ocean Bottom Electric (OBE) field receivers from the Ocean Bottom Instrument Consortium (OBIC). A recent development is the vertical arm so that 6 stations recorded not only the horizontal but also the vertical electric field. Deployment of the OBEs extended over two sessions with […]
Hello world, greetings from the scientists aboard the research vessel Maria S. Merian. We started two days ago in Southampton with a tight work schedule and many expectations for the cruise MSM63-PERMO. Our aim is to survey the major fluid escape features in the central North Sea. We did arrive in the southern […]
Hello world, greetings from the scientists of the cruise MSM63 – PERMO on RV Maria S. Merian! We just left Southampton and set sail northwards to our first survey area, the southern Viking Graben in the central North Sea. There we will first collect bathymetric data to check if the area is suitable for […]
Ganz nach dem Motto “work hard play hard” genießen wir auch unsere Freizeit an Bord und gestalten diese kunterbunt. Angefangen mit Fischtennis, über Filmabende mit trashigen Ninja Filmen, bis zum Kuscheln auf dem Peildeck mit Vorlesestunde op Plattdütsch. Das Leben auf See ist sehr wetterabhängig und die Nähe zum Meer lässt uns oftmals Augenblicke intensiver […]
Die Ostsee ist durch einen von Ost nach West abnehmenden Salzgradienten charakterisiert, welcher durch Einstrom von salzhaltigem Meerwasser aus der Nordsee und Frischwasser aus den Flüssen der Anrainer aufrechterhalten wird. Aus marinen Lebensräumen ist bekannt, dass der Salzgehalt des Wassers eine Rolle bei der Verbreitung von Organismengemeinschaften spielen kann. Da besondere Anpassungen in der Osmoregulation […]
While we are waiting on deck for the fishing net to be pulled out, bets open: 10 cod, 30 cod, 5 boxes of sprat… The winner gets the privilege to pick a task they would like to do from the workflow (very efficient reward for a motivated scientific crew). Although our net has a probe […]
Das Wort Landgang hat für uns alle nach einer Woche auf See eine andere Bedeutung bekommen, Am Freitag den 21. April sind wir morgens um acht in Kalmar eingelaufen und blieben dort bis Samstag Nachmittag. Neben dem Auswechseln einiger wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, gab es hier die Möglichkeit ein bisschen Landluft zu schnuppern. Die Freude mehr als […]
that is the top slogan for tomorrow’s march. 22nd April is named as “Earth Day” and gets celebrated worldwide since 1970. This year, however, will be a special event after all what had happened during and after the US presidential election when Donald Trump called climate change as a bluff: http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-scientists-politics-trump-20170209-story.html organizers of “March for […]