Deutsche Fassung siehe unten 1. What steps are you taking to make sure this research doesn’t pose a risk to marine mammals in the area? The project is taking stringent measures to ensure the safety of marine mammals during the operation of our instruments and research activities. Airguns are acoustic devices that emit sound waves […]
Am 05.09.2022 fand am GEOMAR erstmalig der Science Day statt. Schätzungsweise über 300 Teilnehmende nutzten die Möglichkeit ihre Arbeit in kurzen Präsentationen, Postern und Führungen allen Kolleg:innen am GEOMAR vorzustellen. Das Interesse an dem Austausch war groß und der Hörsaal bis auf den letzten Platz besetzt. Unter den vielen wissenschaftlichen Einblicken, widmete sich der Vortrag […]
The CLOCK is set for SO294 +++english version below+++ Nachdem ein erster Voraustrupp am 09&10. September unter Hochdruck den Großteil des Geräteaufbaus auf dem FS SONNE gestemmt hat, erreicht auch der Haupttrupp Vancouver am 12. September. Um 2 Uhr morgens legt die RV SONNE am Dienstag, 13, September, ab mit dem Team von SO294 an […]
Humans love categorizing things. We need categories, so that when I say ‘chair’, you know I mean the thing I can sit on without having to say ‘the thing to sit on’ every single time. In movies and stories, we love to see ‘the bad guys’ beat up and ‘the good guys’ win. Seeing the […]
By Anne-Sophie Fortin Every day aboard starts with looking up the weather forecast from our favourite meteorologist aboard: Julia Wenzel. Her forecasts are central to the planning of our day-to-day operations on the ship. While on land we may be more interested in whether a day will be sunny or rainy, here at sea we […]
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This week, we recovered, serviced, and redeployed the last mooring of our cruise, the K1 mooring. This mooring measured continuously temperature and salinity in the central Labrador Sea since the early 1990s. More recently, oxygen sensors have been added to the uppermost part of the mooring. Measuring oxygen in the central Labrador Sea is quite […]
Dr Mohammad Heidarzadeh (PhD, CEng, MICE, C.WEM, MCIWEM) Senior Lecturer of Civil Engineering at the University of Bath (mhk58@bath.ac.uk) A new study shows that the 2019 Toddbrook dam incident (Figure 1), where the dam was on the brink of collapse, was the outcome of (1) poor maintenance, (2) inadequate design, and (3) torrential rainfall leading […]
By Anne-Sophie Fortin As we transit at full speed (10 knots) in the Labrador Sea, we used the underway CTD (uCTD) to investigate the vertical structure of potential eddies identified from satellite imagery. The uCTD is a good compromise between research time, efforts, and the dataset we get from it. Indeed, the ability to get […]
By Anne-Sophie Fortin August 24-26, 2022 If the marine life would have weather forecasts, they would have eddies maps. Eddies are circular currents of tens to hundreds of kilometers in diameter and a lifetime of about a month. They can be seen on satellite imagery as minimums and maximums of sea surface heights and sea […]