[deutsche Version unten] by Stella Scheer and Veronique Merten The PhD students Stella Scheer and Veronique Merten of the Deep-Sea Biology Working Group at GEOMAR are reporting here about a method to trace marine animals without observing the animals During our cruise we sampled five different locations for environmental DNA (eDNA), including in- and offshore […]
(Deutsche Version unten) by Rui Freitas, 22-Feb-2019 Rui Freitas is a marine biologist and lecturer at the University of the Cape Verde. Here he reports about his two dives with the manned submersible JAGO down to the steep slopes of Santo Antão and Fogo. The deeper slopes of the Cape Verde islands have never been […]
Here is a latecoming blog from GAME 2018. We have been the first GAME students to conduct experiments at the Ocean Science Centre Mindelo (OSCM) on the island of São Vicente that belongs to the archipelago of Cabo Verde. It was exciting for us to explore a new GAME site but also exhausting and laborious. […]
english version below …braucht Zeit und die richtigen Bedingungen! Hier erzählt JAGO-Pilot Peter Striewski von seinem Weg ins „JAGO-Cockpit“ Wer den eng getakteten Forschungsbetrieb auf Ausfahrten mit einem Forschungsschiff kennt, weiß, dass es gar nicht so einfach ist, Zeit zum Üben eines reibungslosen Einsatzes von mitgebrachten Geräten und – wie in unserem Fall – Fahrzeugen […]
(Deutscher Text unten) Participants of the research cruise POS532 give insight into their work on board the FS POSEIDON. The cruise takes place between the 04 and 24 of February 2019. The introduction to the cruise is given by Henk-Jan Hoving, Deep Sea Biologist and Head of an Emmy Noether Research Group at GEOMAR. During […]
Von Sinja Dittmann Wer kennt sie nicht, die „Grashaufen“, welche im Spülsaum des Strandes angeschwemmt werden. Die Rede ist von Strandanwurf, auch Treibsel genannt, welches an der deutschen Ostseeküste meist aus Seegras (Zostera marina L.) und Algen (Fucus vesiculosus L. und Fucus serratus L.), sowie aus Muschelschalen und Treibholz besteht. Was vielen Seevögeln und Insekten […]
What is the nature of your work? I am a Postdoc (i.e. on a temporary position) working in biogeochemical modelling funded by the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel. As a modeller, I spend most of my time working behind a desk in front of a computer. It involves mainly research and a tiny […]
Already in weekend mode? Need something inspirational to read whilst you pour yourself another cup of hot coffee in this cold February weather? We start this month with the next promised (and slightly delayed) blog entry from the 11th grade English class. This entry focusses on some plastic facts and how plastic affects us and […]
+++ Für die deutsche Version bitte nach unten scrollen +++ All good things come to an end and so is the Archimedes-I cruise. For 48 days, 39 scientists and 31 crew members were onboard of the RV Sonne, cruising the Lau Basin in the south-west Pacific. The cruise was one of a kind because in […]
Nein, das ist nicht meine Uhrzeit. Morgens um sechs Uhr dreißig steheich an der Reventlou-Brücke in Kiel und warte auf die erste Fähre zumSeefischmarkt in der Schwentinemündung. Ein schneidend kalter Wind fegtüber die Förde. Der Winter hat Kiel schließlich doch nocherreicht. Um acht Uhr soll von der Pier des Seefischmarkts dasForschungsschiff ALKOR ablegen. Das Ziel […]