Our GAME journey, which started with an introductory course in Kiel, Germany, in March led us, Kyra and Nadine, to the small but beautiful Wales. After we started in the early-morning hours in Kiel, our train trip took us to Hamburg, Cologne, Brussels, London and finally to Bangor – or Gwynedd in Welsh. Not […]
Was hat ein englischer Geschäftsmann auf den Markt gebracht? A) Qualleneis, das im Dunkeln leuchtet B) Chilisoße, die brennbar ist C) Pizza, die sich in der Mikrowelle um das fünffache vergrößert Das war eine der Fragen in der Sendung “Wer weiss denn so was?” in der ARD: http://www.daserste.de/unterhaltung/quiz-show/wer-weiss-denn-sowas/index.html Die Antwort: Herr Charlie Harry Francis hat […]
Heading of 50 degrees. Northeast. Speed of 10 to 11 knots. Calm, blue sea. Now and then, a bird flies by. Nothing has really changed for three days, and it will stay like this for another two days, until we reached our target area, the TAG hydrothermal field. To go there, a plane would need […]
Ahoi from Barbados … the place, from where we start our five-week expedition with the German research vessel Meteor. The aim of our adventure is the exploration and investigation of active and inactive hot springs of the TAG hydrothermal field, which lies on the seafloor in the middle of the central Atlantic Ocean; more […]
Gerd Müller? So heißt doch ein bekannter Ex-Fußballnationalspieler, oder? Das Bundeskabinett kam mir jedenfalls nicht in den Sinn, als unser Chef vor einigen Monaten in einer Besprechung ankündigte, dass Gerd Müller das GEOMAR besuchen werde. Doch tatsächlich meinte er den Bundesminister für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung Dr. Gerd Müller. Eigentlich halte ich mich zumindest für […]
it was my turn to give a lecture on jellyfish ecology for M.Sc. students of biological oceanography. The lecture is set to introduce current topics involved in our department and our contributions to it as scientists. For the round table, where students select a paper to be discussed, we had three papers. the one that […]
For first time, we developed empirical Green’s functions for tsunamis. The details are shown in the figure. There were two tsunamis in the Solomon Islands region in July 2015 (Mw7.0) and in February 2013 (Mw8.0; known as the Santa Cruz tsunami). The sources of the two tsunamis are very close to each other (see asterisks in […]
A magnitude 7.0 normal-fault earthquake occurred in the Solomon Islands on 18 JUly 2015. This earthquake generated a small tsunami. The epicenter was ~40 km to the north of the 6 February 2013 Santa Cruz Mw 8.0 thrust earthquake. We studied these two events and realized that the recent normal-fault earthquake was possibly triggered by […]
Die Spannung steigt. Seit Monaten sind wir – genauso wie viele Kolleginnen und Kollegen in anderen Einrichtungen der deutschen Meeresforschung – gefühlt nur noch mit einem Thema beschäftigt: Dem bevorstehenden Wissenschaftsjahr 2016*17 “Meere und Ozeane”. Wir starteten mit ersten generellen Überlegungen Ende vergangenen Jahres und setzten die Arbeit mit der Planung konkreter Veranstaltungen und Angebote, […]
People may think that working on sea can be cold, windy, wavy, and with hard shifts – sometimes from 00:00 to 6:00 -, and that living on a boat could be, summing up, quite tough. Even though all these ideas might be partly true, after a long day, having the opportunity to see an incredible […]