May 10, 2018 Latitude: 34.867° S Longitude: 179.061° E Days at sea: 2 On Wednesday (May 9) morning, we left the port of Auckland and started our transit to Brothers Volcano. The seas were calm and the weather warm and sunny. Thus, the 24h transit was very smooth, there were no issues with seasickness and […]
May 6, 2018 Latitude: 36° 50.60’S Longitude: 174°46.80’E Days at sea: 0 Hello and welcome to the IODP Expedition 376 “Brothers Arc Flux” Blog May 6, the start of our expedition. Our staff scientist, Tobias Hoefig, picked us and the other scientists up at the hotel in Auckland and brought us to the Freyberg Wharf […]
Great News at the Ocean Summit in Hong Kong as the second Team (AkzoNobel) will jump into the Oceans with our Equipment from Leg 7 onwards next to Turn the Tide on Plastic. My talk did cost me my lunch that day as there were so many interested people in our research activities and possible […]
Meet Anu Reinart, a director of Estonian Space Research and Technology Center, Tartu Observatory. Her activities include governance of the basic research in the field of astronomy, also collaboration with industry for development of the applications in remote sensing and technology of satellites. The institute is also responsible for the University of Tartu study program […]
What is the nature of your work? I’m a senior researcher at the Marine Research Institute, Klaipeda University. My main interests are wave dynamics and their impact on the sandy coast. Career as a researcher. I got my first degree in physics. The undergraduate work on standing waves in semiconductors has evolved into the study […]
On January 8th we launched officially our Horizon 2020 Project „GoJelly“. The project is supported by the European commission to address marine litters by using jellyfish as an innovative and also new source for biotech-based researches which is unique worldwide in the structure we proposed. The main focus is to investigate in an anti-microplastic filter […]
Trotz Minusgraden, Wind und teilweise Schnee machten sich das Sammel-Team des Geomars mit Kevin Schröder und Vanessa Herhoffer und der Kieler Forschungswerkstatt mit Dennis Brennecke, Tim Kiessling und Lukas Pott auf den Weg um die Strände an der Ostseeküste auf Mikro- und Makroplastik zu beproben. Um zu bestimmen wieviel Mikroplastik sich an den Stränden der […]
Gemeinsam mit dem Exzellenzcluster „Ozean der Zukunft“ laden wir Euch, Schülerinnen und Schüler von acht bis zwölf Jahren, zur Kinder- und Schüleruni ein. Am 21. März 2018 berichten Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler der Kieler Forschungswerkstatt über das Citizen Science Projekt “Plastikpiraten“. Der Vortrag beginnt um 16 Uhr und dauert rund 60 Minuten. Für die Eltern gibt […]
Bottlenecks – part II (read part I here) In our final blog we will re-capture our journey through the Mediterranean as it is not very often that one gets to travel from one end almost to the other. The Mediterranean is unique because of its numerous passages and straits. These maritime bottlenecks also characterized our […]
Oceanographic pioneer Maurice Ewing is reported to have advised his students that the key to discovery is to take a new instrument to a place where no one has explored before. The midwater research conducted off the Cape Verde Islands during Poseidon Cruise 520 is a fine example of that research philosophy. The unique combination […]