Ahoi! My name is Paulina and I am a bachelor student at the Christian- Albrechts-University Kiel. For the second time in my life I get the possibility to participate in an Alkor cruise organized by Jan Dierking from the “Evolutionary Ecology of Marine Fish” Group of GEOMAR. The cruise is a very good experience for […]
On April 13th at 10 am, research vessel Alkor left the GEOMAR pier for resarch expedition AL476, the first of our two 2016 Baltic Sea integrative time series cruises. We are 11 scientists including both experienced researchers and students, and 12 permanent crew members on board. Our objective: to gather interdisciplinary data that will expand […]
WOW! The response to our crowd translation has been overwhelming – Thanks to all you wonderful people out there who are wanting and willing to get involved, and make the material we provide accessible in Chinese, Portuguese and German. (go straight to this link to see the trailer subtitled already, as an appetizer for the […]
At the moment, on board research vessel R/V Falkor, colleges are diving with a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) to a hydrothermal vent site in the south western Pacific. A live stream from the seafloor is available here. What they are doing there and why, find out here. —- Im Moment tauchen Kollegen vom Forschungsschiff […]
As MOOC authors we want our messages – the nuggets of insight, the invitation to engage – to really reach a global audience. Our MOOC was filmed in English, admittedly a wide-spread universal language of science, but by no means the language of everyone intersted in learning about the ocean. So what to do? This […]
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 […]
by Christina Schmidt, CAU Today we are right in the centre of a high pressure system, so everything is really calm. No winds, no big waves and, as it rained yesterday, no more salt covering the deck, make me sometimes forget that we are actually right in the middle of the South Atlantic. But we […]
by Anne Scherhag, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz It is incredible how fast the time is passing on board the Meteor: Today is already hump day. I can’t believe it is already our 10th day in the South Atlantic, and I guess, the second half will pass even faster due to being settled into […]
Just another day in Paradise. No, really. After writing this blog, I am going to head up to the sun deck with a good book and enjoy the waveless, windless, sunny day. Yesterday’s multinet sample contained very few microplastic particles for me to count- thus I have the day off before my shift starts at […]
Hello everyone, today is the first Sunday on board the Meteor. The calm waters are gone and now we taste some real southern open ocean waters. I am on one of the night shifts and we can see the amazing sunrise every day. Sundays on a ship are not like Sundays on land where you […]