By Anne-Sophie Fortin August 14, 2022 Today was entertaining as Paul, Félix, and Christian calibrated the buoyancy of two Gliders. Gliders are autonomous underwater vehicles using buoyancy to move around. As they can change their pitch, i.e., angle, they can glide horizontally while moving up and down the water column. Calibration of the Glider’s buoyancy […]
By Anne-Sophie Fortin August 14, 2022 As we transit toward the next station with a speed of about 8 knots, we are taking continuous profiles of the upper 100 meters of the ocean. To do so we use a Moving Vessel Profiler (MVP), an instrument measuring temperature and conductivity (from which salinity can be derived) […]
By Anne-Sophie Fortin August 13, 2022 Today we (purposely) throw some scientific instruments overboard, the firsts of many. In the picture, you may see Paula lowering a Hereon Drifter with a rope. A Hereon Drifter is a Lagrangian surface drifter, which means that it follows the water mass where it has been deployed, under the […]
By: Dr Mohammad Heidarzadeh Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Bath (England) Secretary General of the International Tsunami Commission. Email: mhk58@bath.ac.uk A new study shows that the deadly and global-reaching tsunami generated by the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai volcano in January 2022 was as high as 90 m (see Figure 1). The tsunami […]
By Anne-Sophie Fortin Let me introduce to you the scientific crew aboard the M184 Cruise. The chief scientist of this expedition is Johannes who takes care of the general smooth running of scientific activities on board. He can rely on Sunke (also a co-chief scientist), Félix, and Fehmi, the CTD watch leaders, and on the […]
By Anne-Sophie Fortin August 11-12, 2022 The water is still in the harbour by night. Shrouded in what seems like a perpetual mist, the Meteor is waiting patiently. People step aboard the ship in small waves and wash up in their beds, exhausted from their long flights. As the sun rise, the crew finalizes the […]
Meet us at “Tag der offenen Tür” on Sunday, 21 August 2022 from 11 to 5pm.We are looking forward to meeting you in the foyer of building 8.
Sæl og blessuð! Velkomin tíl Ísafjarða. Happy and blessed! Welcome to Ísafjörður. That’s the formal greeting you hear in Iceland, the land of fire and ice. GAME is more than happy to finally cooperate with the partner institution in the Westfjords, incorporating a sub-arctic environment into the Global Approach by Modular Experiments. And what an […]
***deutsche Version siehe weiter unten*** Teaser: Scientists are concerned about surface active compounds (known as surfactants) in any air-sea exchange processes nowadays. During our ongoing research in the Baltic Sea, scientists from IOW and GEOMAR came together on RV EMB295 to address the question of how surfactants in surface seawater of the Baltic Sea control […]
By the time this blog entry is published, I will have completed my first year as a doctoral candidate at GEOMAR. And what a year it was! As a university student I heard all the stories, I read all the memes and saw all the videos on #PhDLife. I thought I knew what I was […]