It was a nice and sunny day, like most of our days on the Alkor, the research vessel of our cruise. Steady noise coming from the winch and anticipating buzz, which surrounded a group of students with safety boots and helmets, filled the air. Once the upcoming net broke the water surface and got „gehievt“ […]
German version below The stars at night are the same, the world keeps turning and (almost) everything remains the same in the rest of the world. But after a 23-day transit between the Northwestern African coast and the Central American coast, with few signs of civilization (only a few cargo-ships at a distance) and a […]
Jasmin und Anne organisierten bereits zahlreiche Forschungsfahrten für den Fachbereich Dynamik des Ozeanbodens – ob nach Papua-Neuguinea zur Erforschung von Flankenkollapsen an Vulkaninseln, ins Mittelmeer auf der Suche nach submarinen Süßwasser Aquiferen oder bereits 2015 die erste GeoSEA Ausfahrt SO244 in den Pazifik. Doch selten waren so viele Vorabreiten wie für diese Expedition notwendig. Gesundheitserklärung […]
(deutsche Version unten) Today, I have the opportunity to share on this blog my stay on board of the RV SONNE in which I embarked since the 10/12/2021, since one month after having left two days ago my beautiful and warm country, Senegal. Yes, I spent Christmas and New Year’s Eve at sea, an experience […]
Below 1.5° C rise above pre-industrial levels – this is the target global warming limit that scientists argue to hold to for the world to suffer less from the negative impacts of climate change. To achieve this goal, nations must commit not only to limit their carbon dioxide emissions but also other trace gas emissions […]
(deutsche Version unten) Greetings from the Pacific Ocean! We are Sigrid and Jesus, and together we have been working with the weather balloons on board. We launch radiosondes twice a day at stations. The radiosondes measures temperature, humidity, pressure, and position. Occasionally we launch ozone sondes, which is a completely different sonde attached to a […]
(english version below) Eine Seereise bedeutet nicht nur, interessante Forschung zu betreiben und viele neue Leute kennen zu lernen. Da man bekanntlich etwas mürrisch werden kann, wenn man hungrig ist, kann eine gute und abwechslungsreiche Verpflegung an Bord helfen, um die Stimmung der 39 WissenschaftlerInnen und 30 Crew-Mitglieder aufrecht zu halten. Hier auf der Sonne […]
Spending Christmas and the new year onboard a research ship is something I have never imagined. I have always thought that Christmas and new year are the times when you spend more time with your family and loved ones. However, this was not the case for us scientists and crew members of the SO287 CONNECT […]
(english version below) Es ist der 1. Januar 2022. Für uns beide ist es das erste Mal Silvester auf einem Forschungsschiff. Weit entfernt von zu Hause, nämlich in der Karibik, haben wir nun zu Silvester nach getaner Arbeit also ganze fünf Mal auf das neue Jahr angestoßen, denn wir haben viele verschiedene Nationen an Bord. […]
Hi, we are Quentin and Jon. We are from France and Spain and work at GEOMAR. Our job on board is to sample the CTD and, with that water, we are doing analysis of respiration rates and dissolved organic matter. Also, Jon is running an instrument attached to the CTD that is taking pictures of the […]