A small mountain stands in the middle of the ocean, a hill, strictly speaking. It is called Anak Krakatau, which roughly means “Child of Krakatau”, because a much larger mountain once stood in its place. Just like its predecessor, the Anak Krakatau can spit fire because it’s a volcano. Whenever it erupts and the lava […]
***English version below*** Jeden Tag werden Menschen, die Teil der LSBTIQ* Community sind, mit Vorurteilen, Ausgrenzung und Diskriminierung konfrontiert. Eine gleichberechtigte Teilhabe am gesellschaftlichen Leben ist somit nicht möglich. Der Aktionsplan der Bundesregierung soll dieser Situation entgegenwirken und das Leben von LSBTIQ* Personen verbessern. Am 18. November wurde vom Bundeskabinett ein Aktionsplan zum Thema „Queer […]
The CTD (short for Conductivity-Temperature-Depth) is a central instrument for most oceanic research. It infers the salinity from conductivity and measures, in addition to temperature and depth, oxygen, florescence and much more! Furthermore, it has 24 big bottles (10 L) attached to it, allowing for water collection from specific depths, which then in turn can […]
1st weekly report (25.01.2023 – 28.01.2023) Sunday 29th January 2023 On Wednesday 25th January we left the port of Walvis Bay in Namibia at 20:00 local time. This is the beginning of a 38-day cruise in the South East Atlantic, where we will study the physics, chemistry and biology of upwelled filaments. Using a wide […]
Team Cabo Verde meets Team GEOMAR in Mindelo. From 20 to 24 January 2023, a delegation from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel visited Cabo Verde to discuss further research cooperations with regional partners and to strengthen the role of the Ocean Science Centre Mindelo (OSCM). This plattform for support and exchange was put […]
Thursday 26th January 2023 After an evening departure from Walvis Bay yesterday and a first ‘test’ station not far from the coast, we are now heading south, hunting for so-called filaments to track. The overarching aim of our research cruise is to investigate these features: elongated finger-shaped structures of cold seawater that penetrate outwards from […]
Youth nowadays is harder than most people would expect. To be fair not as hard as it was hundreds of years ago or even in the beginning of the 20th century. But exactly that is part of the problem. I mean who really knows what it’s like to grow up with all this rapid development […]
Deutsche Version siehe unten Mirja Bardenhagen, Marine Resource Exploration – Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources in Hanover, Germany Hello, it’s Wilma again. And as promised with the answers. But first I would like to thank everyone who helped me to create the puzzle. Because of course I couldn’t be there for every photo […]
Deutsche Version siehe unten Marcel Rothenbeck, AUV Team – GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany We have been at sea for 40 days now. As expected, all we see around the ship is water as far as the eye can see, and every now and then a group of red-footed boobies is flying […]
Deutsche Version siehe unten Carsten Rühlemann, Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources in Hannover, Germany I am working in the Marine Resource Exploration department at the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe, BGR), Germany’s geological survey in Hannover. In 2004, the federal government led by the Social Democratic […]