In den Ozean der Zukunft eintauchen – das konnten 400 junge Zuhörerinnen und Zuhörer am Ozean-Tag am Mittwoch im Audimax der CAU. In fünf spannenden Vorträgen nahmen Kieler Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler aus dem Exzellenzcluster „Ozean der Zukunft“ die Schülerinnen und Schüler ab der 10. Klasse mit auf Entdeckungsreise. Dabei ging es um den Klimawandel, Ozeanströmungen, […]

Tintenfische, sogenannte Kopffüßer, scheinen derzeit die großen Gewinner des sich wandelnden Ozeans zu sein. Wie ein internationales Forscherteam nun herausfand, hat die Zahl der Oktopusse, Sepien und Kalmare über die letzten sechzig Jahre stark zugenommen. Das gilt nicht nur für alle der über dreißig untersuchten Arten, sondern konnte auch gleichzeitig in allen großen Ozeanbecken weltweit […]

The project in 2017 will focus on possible interactive effects between warming and grazing in marine benthic systems. Will invertebrate grazers such as isopods, sea urchins and snails consume more algal biomass when water temperatures will rise in the course of global warming? If yes, will this effect be consistent across climate zones? Furthermore, can […]

“Bridge for lab. We reached the bottom.” Two clicks in the walky-talky: the confirmation from the bridge. In the lab, on boxes, tables, and even on the floor gather the scientists around the screen, on which fine lines slowly appear, and on which a blue-grey turns into a pale yellow. Dark spots become rocky boulders, […]

  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 […]

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 […]