Author: Laura Marín Samper, Pictures: Michael Sswat & Laura Marín Samper After a long day of many hours analyzing dissolved oxygen samples, I was lucky enough to participate in an impromptu, Norwegian, late summer night excursion to the mesocosms. While having dinner, Dr. Michael Sswat told us that he wanted to videotape inside the mesocosms […]
Author: Julieta Schneider, Pictures: Giulia Faucher, Javier Arístegui and Julieta Schneider The first days of the campaign are always a bit confusing and blurry in memories afterwards. People are running around trying to put together their respective equipment, finding boxes for their samples and space to store them. It’s all about getting ready for the […]
Author and Pictures: María Couret Huertas If you want to know what is happening in “La habitación fria” (the cold room), get the jacket and let me give you a tour. In “La habitación fria” multiple experiments are taking place, but in this post I’m going to talk about the copepod respiration rate experiments. Copepods […]
Author & Pictures: Philipp Süßle It´s dark, cold and moist. Peculiar sounds are coming from one corner of the room. The plankton wheel is spinning relentlessly. In the other corner, a glooming monitor is showing a continuous rain of particles, diving the lab into a cold light. Wanja and I are wearing thick onesies to […]
„Hola“ and Hello from Vigo, Spain. I’m Fabian and I’m the sole member of this year’s team in Spain. Saapuminen. Llegar. Koma. Chegando. Tiba. 到着. Ankommen. All these words above just mean one thing: Arrival – in a new place, a new country. Managing this task alone is difficult and nerve-wracking especially in the beginning. But since […]
Author: Gregor Börner, Pictures: Gregor Börner & Uli Kunz As parents, we know that you love us, and we never doubt it. However, we know that there are days we let you down. We wish there were not. We wish we were able to be exactly what you need every single day. We wish we […]
Author: Wanja Böhme, Pictures: Lukas Krause It’s 08:15 at the peer, the sun has been up for three hours already. People are running around, loading boxes with bottles and canisters on Wassermann, Rita and Peterchen – the boats of the KOSMOS campaign. Every second day we drive out to sample the mesocosms. Of course, I […]
Author & Pictures: Julieta Schneider We have a vivid community at the marine research station and, as such, we like to share some delicious dinner together. Though fun and cosy, it is not an easy task to cook for 40 people! Logistics start when shopping. We need to gather volunteers, a driver, and the shopping […]
Author & Pictures: Michael Sswat “We are going for another mesocosm experiment”, this sounds quite familiar, and by now, friends and family just ask “where and how long will you go?”. This time, me and my colleauges went to Bergen in Norway for 3 months to study ocean alkalinity enhancement, a potential method to remove […]
Author: Juliane Tammen, Pictures: Juliane Tammen & Michael Sswat Is there a better way to start a 2.5 month long scientific study than using a research vessel as a cruise ship? Our 10 mesocosms needed to be transported and deployed by the research vessel Alkor. As the ship is not only able to transport mesocosms […]