Die erste Hälfte der Kieler Woche 2018 ist geschafft. Das Wetter war Kieler-Woche-mäßig durchwachsen (also alles wie gewohnt), unsere Vorträge waren bisher gut besucht, ebenso der “Ozean der Zukunft” Stand im Zelt “kieler uni live” und der GAME-Stand zum Thema “Plastik im Meer” im “Klimaschutzstadt Kiel Infozelt”. Doch immer wieder werde ich gefragt, wo in […]
What is the nature of your work? Katja Dierking: I am a staff scientist (tenured faculty member) at the Zoological institute at Kiel University. I am a molecular biologist and study host-microbe interactions in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. My work involves science, teaching, and administration. Jan Dierking: I am a scientist (relying on 3rd party […]
Latitude: 38.872°S Longitude: 178.940°E Days at sea: 40 The last week on the JOIDES Resolution was very exciting! Another storm hit us with wave heights up to 4.3 m. This meant we had to stop our operations and were “WOWing” (waiting on weather) again. While, usually, this is a time we mostly spend writing […]
Die Kieler Woche 2018 hat noch gar nicht richtig angefangen (die offizielle Eröffnung erfolgt erst heute Abend um 19 Uhr), doch der #OzeanKiWo, das Programm der Kieler Meereswissenschaften, in schon in vollem Gange. Im Umweltzelt der Stadt Kiel präsentiert das GAME-Programm neueste Erkenntnisse zum Thema Plastik im Meer. Im Zelt der Christian-Albrechts-Universität “Kieler Uni Live” […]
Latitude: 34.882°S Longitude: 179.068°E Days at Sea: 32 In the last post, Karen mentioned the term ‚WOWing‘. The term is actually an abbreviation for ‘Waiting-On-Weather’ and means that the weather and/or the seas are too rough to continue with our operations. This happened already a few times during our Expedition, the last time on Thursday. […]
Find a list of the projects media coverage. Obviously, I couldn’t compete with the media speed. So, I was not able to gather all articles and videos yet but it is already fascinating what we achieved within the last months – stay tuned. TV: PS-Reportage: Road to Alicante NBC 10 News Sunrise Monday 14th of […]
May 27, 2018 Latitude: 34° 52.52’S Longitude: 179°03.52’E Days at sea: 19 Let’s follow a core that gets on deck of the JOIDES Resolution. It has to endure a lot of procedures before it is allowed to relax in its d-tube, where it waits for shipping to the storage facility in Japan. After the core […]
Latitude: 34.882º S Longitude: 179.068º E Days at sea: 12 The last few days were quite successful. We managed to drill more than 200 metres into the northwestern rim of the Brothers caldera and retrieved some wonderful cores. Fresh lava for us igneous petrologists and vocanologists, altered rocks for our alteration specialists and sulphides for […]
After four weeks of intensive planning and discussing in March 2018 with our fellow Gamies (aka GAME students) in Kiel, Team Madeira finally arrived on the island of Madeira in the beginning of April. Who is team Madeira? It is Anne, who is studying Geoecology at the University of Potsdam, and Felicitas, who is studying […]
Just as most scientists, geologists spend most of their working time in front of a computer (i.e., the hard place) – sometimes interrupted by some time in the lab, depending on your specialty. The best thing about Geology though is that we have to go into the field or on research cruises like this one, […]