Salam sejahtera and greetings from Malaysia. Malaysia is one of the two study sites in GAME 2021 where participants had to work alone. Team Malaysia was initially supposed to consist of two members, Leonard and Marie, but despite numerous efforts to get Marie to Malaysia, her travel was finally not possible due to Covid-19 restrictions. […]
Wer wissenschaftlich arbeitet, muss dabei möglichst neutral, unbeeinflusst und unvoreingenommen sein – wissenschaftliches Arbeiten unterliegt schließlich wissenschaftlichen Standards. Aber wie sieht das aus, wenn man als Wissenschaftler*in zur Öffentlichkeit spricht? Wie neutral muss man sich dann verhalten? Darf man eine bestimmte Position vertreten und kann man jemals außerhalb der wissenschaftlichen Rolle wahrgenommen werden? Ein spannendes […]
Eine deutsche Version ist weiter unten zu finden. In the last entry, we mostly had a look at the water column with so called acoustic methods, which are using the properties of sound moving through water. Most of the instruments are mounted to the hull of the vessel and are fairly reliable. But so far, […]
In my last post, I described how we take samples from our mesocosms and how the filtration for particles inside the water is done afterwards. Now, some people may ask: Why is all this done? Would it not be enough to just filter the water one time? What are all these different filters used for […]
Hola, ¿qué tal? We, Svea and Abel, are Team Spain. We are in the northwest of Spain in the region of Galicia, more exactly in Vigo. A city with about 300.000 inhabitants, located next to the Atlantic and surrounded by beautiful nature. Galicia is definitely an underestimated region in Spain. Very diverse, with amazing views […]
On September 24, a nationwide climate strike took place on the occasion of the upcoming federal elections in Germany. In the context of the strike and the election, there was intense discussion in scientific circles about the extent to which it was now permissible to position oneself thematically politically.The election was crucial. It would determine […]
Am 24. September fand ein deutschlandweiter Klimastreik statt, anlässlich der anstehenden Bundestagswahl. Im Rahmen des Streiks und der Wahl, wurde in wissenschaftlichen Kreisen intensiv diskutiert, inwieweit man sich denn nun thematisch politisch positionieren dürfe.Die Wahl war entscheidend. Sie würde bestimmen, welche Parteien die letzte Entscheidungsgewalt bekämen, noch Maßnahmen zu ergreifen, die zumindest Deutschlands Anteil am […]
Eine deutsche Version ist weiter unten zu finden. Just as Sherlock Holmes is only as good a detective as he is, since he considers all the evidence he can find and does not rely on fingerprints alone, here in the Gulf of St Lawrence, we apply all the methods available to us, in order to […]
Throughout the past few weeks of the mesocosm experiment I have been having these recurring dreams in which I was a traveling microalga. My life as a dinoflagellate named Scrippsiella had been quite ordinary before I was collected from one of the mesocosms. Floating freely in the water column, I had been capturing photons from […]
Eine deutsche Version ist weiter unten zu finden. Welcome back! Now, let me tell you who the royal adventurers (because of PRINCE, get it?) are on this journey. On this ship, we are 24 crew people and 21 scientists. We scientists are further categorizable as follows: 7 Doctoral Candidates (DC), 5 Student Assistants (HiWi), 3 […]