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 […]
Welcome to the cave
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 […]
from Game Blog
Team members of GAME 2022 arrive in their target countries: Hola from Vigo, Spain.
„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 […]
Open letter to all 13247 children and the 1000 that left the nest to conquer the KOSMOS
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 […]
“Stayin’ alive” vs. “Hallelujah”
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 […]
It’s dinner time!
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 […]
A good omen and mesocosmic amnesia
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 […]
The Trip to Bergen on RV Alkor
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 […]
from Cape Verde Blog
#MSM106 Floating University – Live stream tour onboard of RV Maria S. Merian
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 […]
from Cape Verde Blog
#MSM106 Floating University- Life onboard of Maria S. Merian
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 […]