A couple of days ago we started heading north again. We are now in an area where also the research vessel Meteor and the research plane HALO are operating. HALO circles every second day above our heads measuring both with its instruments on board as well as by releasing dropsondes. Those small meteorological devices descend […]
First of all, you need to know which one that is: it’s the Peruvian Anchovy and it´s caught in such enormous quantities that it´s the biggest single-species fishery in the world. But it’s not used by humans directly, the hand-long fishes are ground to fishmeal and fish oil and are then shipped all over the world […]
by Joke Lübbecke The El Niño – Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a climate phenomenon that entails pronounced warm or cold surface anomalies in the eastern equatorial Pacific and has impacts on the weather around the globe. In a master level class students are introduced to some fundamental theories about ENSO. One of them, the so-called […]
The 11th February was the international day for women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). Historically, gender differences have been present in science. Women have faced barriers for their work to be accepted by the scientific community and published in scientific journals, and for an extended period of time, they were even banned from […]
We get out of the taxi and find ourselves on a dusty slope, waiting to be let into the warehouse. Somewhere in the north of Callao, far from our holy and protected La Punta bubble, the clean and safe neighborhood in which we are staying. I try to orient myself. The Pacific cannot be far […]
by Claudia Acquistapace (see original Italian version below) How do you imagine them, the sailors in 2020? I didn’t want to believe the classic stereotype, of blackened men, big as wardrobes, strong, and full of tattoos. But instead. On board this ship, the crew I’ve met are almost all twice as tall as me, very […]
Von Jakob Deutloff und Nils Niebaum Es kann schwer sein, sich komplexe physikalische Prozesse vorzustellen. Hier geht es um eine spielerische Lösung. Als Studenten stehen wir regelmäßig vor diesem Problem, besonders häufig im Atmosphären- und Ozeandynamik Kurs. Um uns das Leben etwas zu erleichtern, führt unser Dozent Dr. Torge Martin, unterstützt von Dr. Mirjam Glessmer, dieses […]
This morning, while packing my suitcase for the upcoming KOSMOS 2020 experiment in Perú, I read that there is currently a red tide in front of Miraflores (Lima, Perú), and this brought warm memories from our last year’s cruise to these waters. Last year, I was on the magnificent research vessel Maria S. Merian celebrating […]
What is the nature of your work? I´m working on assessing the impacts of future sea level rise: not only physical but also socioeconomic impacts. We account for climate change but also for socioeconomic developments. Career as a researcher. I have been relative mobile. I did my first degree in surveying engineering at the National […]
Eine rätselhafte Kraft versetzt (Eis)berge am Nordpol? Als Studierende des Ozeans und der Atmosphäre am Geomar, lassen wir es uns nicht nehmen das Geheimnis um dieses bemerkenswerte Verhalten zu lüften. Folgen Sie uns auf eine spannende Reise von der Vergangenheit bis zu unserem Studienalltag, indem wir mit Tankexperimenten auf der Spur dieses Phänomens wandern. Von […]