مرحبا مجددا y bienvenido de nuevo, This translates to “Hello again” in Arabic, and “welcome back” in Spanish, which we thought would be culturally appropriate to this post, considering we’ve just passed the Strait of Gibraltar, having both Morocco and Spain in sight. Somehow, the bridge’s timing was just right as well, giving us a […]
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Well, hello there! Nice to have an interested reader like yourself here, on this little blog in the vast space of the world wide web, to read about the long journey of the scientific cruise SO277 aboard RV Sonne. With negative Corona test results at hand, finally, it was time to go to Emden where […]
It’s 1:00 pm, the sky is clear, the sea is calm. It is time for you to conduct an underway CTD (uCTD). Take the probe and the protocol bring it astern, where the winch is. Load the slack on the tail end of the probe, to make it fall perfectly vertical. After 100 seconds you […]
(Für die deutsche Version bitte runterscrollen) On Thursday, 14th of August 2020, R/V Sonne, one of Germany’s largest research vessels departs from Emden (Germany), towards Sicily and Malta in the Mediterranean Sea starting the OMAX cruise. During the cruise a team of scientists from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel in cooperation with the […]
We made our way through the English Channel and were rewarded with a wavy ocean making some of us suffer from seasickness. Not exactly a great reward but something one should always consider when going on a research cruise. By now all of us have overcome the seasickness and are doing well again. At this […]
Everything has been quite different in the last few months to what we have known before. Research cruises are no exception to that. Starting with the fact that we have to start and end our journey in a German harbor even though the field we are interested in is the Labrador Sea, going on with […]
Es gibt Dinge, die ändern sich nicht. Auch nicht in Pandemie-Zeiten. Dazu gehört die typische, sommerliche Medien-Anfrage an ein Meeresforschungs-Zentrum: “Gibt es eine Quallenplage?”. Klar, viele Menschen möchten im Sommer an den Strand – möglichst an einen Strand ohne Quallen. Denn die Glibber-Tiere sind irgendwie ekelig. Sonst hätten Kinder wohl nicht so viel Spaß daran, […]
In den vergangenen Blogeinträgen konnten wir bereits davon berichten, dass die Meeresforschung trotz COVID-19 wieder aktiv ist und – mit entsprechenden neuen Regeln – sogar Expeditionen auf hoher See wieder möglich sind. Aktuell ist das Forschungsschiff SONNE unter Fahrtleitung von Dr. Saskia Brix von der Senckenberg-Gesellschaft im Nordatlantik im Einsatz, um verschiedene marine Lebensräume rund […]
This semester is turning out a little different from what we had hoped, but it has presented the opportunity to try our new things: Torge and his class join me in my kitchen! I log into their online class with two devices, one looking at the tank from the top, the other looking from the […]