Since September 2020, I have been setting up the public relations for the three oceanic projects REEBUS, CUSCO and EVAR. Interested people can already find the projects on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. This blog is also meant to be a way for people to dive deeper into everyday science and look behind the scenes of […]
Seit September 2020 baue ich die Öffentlichkeitsarbeit für die drei ozeanischen Projekte REEBUS, CUSCO und EVAR auf. Interessierte finden die Projekte bereits auf Twitter, Instagram und Facebook. Auch dieser Blog soll ein Weg für Menschen sein, tiefer in den wissenschaftlichen Alltag einzutauchen und hinter die Kulissen von Wissenschaft zu blicken. Doch wie kommt es dazu, […]
NIOZ: Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research On board of the RV SONNE, we have installed a pH optode taking continuous measurements at 30 seconds interval inside a cell through which surface seawater runs uninterrupted (Figure 1). This enables us to obtain high resolution pH data, which is rare even for the North Atlantic Ocean. […]
*HZG: Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Germany New tools for sampling and analysis of microplastic Apart from the primary plastics chasing activities using various types of nets on SO279, a group of three post-docs and PhD student from the Institute of Coastal Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht (HZG) are bringing something different to the expedition. As we are getting closer […]
Deep sea sediments cover almost two thirds of the planet’s surface, yet they remain mostly unexplored and mysterious. Differently from what was thought in the past, they host greatly biodiverse communities associated to both soft and rocky substrates. From cold water corals (soft corals with no calcareous structure) to holothurians (sea cucumbers), from shrimps to […]
Not only dinosaurs, but also marine phytoplankton and terrestrial plants were deposited and metamorphosed over time into oil. Some of that oil has been made into plastic that eventually made its way into the ocean. The basic chemical building blocks of plastic are well-known in nature, but anthropogenic long chain polymers are extremely difficult for […]
Every time we use the nets to sample the water we find a lot of interesting stuff, ranging from fish and critters to heaps of sargassum seaweed, and often a number of fragments which appear to be plastics. But are they really plastics though? Can we distinguish for example between a piece of plastic foil, […]
After the OFOS profile finished on 15 December, SONNE transited to Station 4. We arrived on 16 December at 4:00 in the morning and immediately began our sampling program. The box cores returned with rather strange sediments—fine grained carbonates that behaved somewhat like a non-Newtonian fluid. The sediment was soft when gently pressed or shaken, […]
Our 4-day transit to our next sampling station was finally finished on December 13 where we arrived on station no. 3 west of Madeira and the Canary Islands. The weather was as promised, with relatively calm seas, bright sunshine, and air temperatures approaching 20°C. The afternoon was dedicated to net-sampling. Erik Borchert from the Project […]
Since September 2020, I have been employed at the GEOMAR Institute in Kiel to set up public relations for three ocean research projects, EVAR, REEBUS and CUSCO. The first project is primarily based at the Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde, the last two primarily at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel. Before starting […]