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 […]
The 10th of March was a special day for the students. The Expedition MSM106 took part in the UN Ocean Decade Ocean Laboratory “A Healthy and Resilient Ocean” as a satellite activity. The students produced a live-stream video from the Atlantic Ocean onboard of R/V Maria S. Merian. Melissa Ndure from Sierra Leone guided the […]
What would you expect to see on a research vessel crossing the North-East Atlantic ocean on its way from Cape Verde to Germany? What do you think about the life onboard? Herein, we want to talk about the progress of the work within the expedition MSM106, the free time, the policies onboard, how we deal […]
German version below I am Gilles Florent SORO, I come from the Côte d’Ivoire, I have a degree in Biological Sciences from the University Peleforo Gon Coulibaly of Korhogo. Since my childhood, I have always been passionate about studying the environment, so my academic career is in this logic. Today, as a Master of Climate […]
[deutsche Version unten] 7th Weekly Report(4th April – 8th April 2022) Our last station (station 44) was conducted in the early morning of April 4. Immediately after the station was finished, we departed for Noumea, and started analysing the last set of samples, clearing our laboratories and packing our boxes and loading the containers.The packing […]
[Deutsche Version unten] Weekly Report SO289 Progress: We have had a successful week, following our unplanned detour to Tahiti. We commenced sampling again on March 23 and have been able to conduct daily station occupations with CTD casts and in situ pump deployments (Fig. 1). The weather has been variable with winds up to force […]
Guten Tag from the fabulous mercury duo! We are Alina (PhD Student, University of Pau) on board for the Marine Mercury Lab at the Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography Marseille and Kati (Postdoc, GEOMAR). Our mission on this cruise is to provide new observations on all chemical forms of mercury (called Hg species) in the South […]
Hey there, This is the second GEOTRACES cruise I have attended. Back in Kiel I am taking part in the bachelor’s program Biochemistry and molecular biology. I have been working as a research assistant in Eric Achterberg’s lab at GEOMAR for the last two years, and I am very happy to join them on the […]
[deutsche Version unten] We are almost done! Our voyage between Chile and New Caledonia has been just under two months now! Despite all the challenges, we are going strong, through Southern Pacific, one of the least studied areas in our planet, working very hard, day and night. We woke up at 3am from time to […]
The SO289 research cruise aboard R/V Sonne, which involves the trans-Pacific leg of the GEOTRACES program, is a 48-day expedition consisting of 48 planned CTD cast stations taken at approximately 1-3° intervals all the way from the coast of Chile to the South Fiji Basin (Figure 1). The chief objective of this research cruise is […]