The island of Terceira in the background, a huge pod of common dolphins accompanying the ship, sunshine and calm seas; we cannot ask for a better start to our expedition “ISAAC” on journey M202 of research vessel Meteor. On 21 July, the RV Meteor left the port of Praia da Vitória, Terceira (Azores) to embark […]
Olá da Madeira! The island – a green paradise in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean – has been home to us for almost three months already. How the time flies! We are Lara and Karo, one of 8 teams that currently conduct experiments all over the world as part of this year’s GAME project. […]
Collecting seawater samples for trace metal analysis is different than sampling for other ocean parameters such as temperature, salinity, carbon and so on. Why? The concentration of metals in seawater is naturally very low (hence ‘trace’ metals) and it is important to avoid sample contamination from the ships environment which is full of possible contamination […]
Hi, I am Emilia, marine ecologist. For me ocean is home. First of all, it is home for marine creatures, but temporarily also it is a home for us – visitors living on a ship for several weeks. We all feel that we are lucky ones to explore the realm of marine life in a […]
Aluu (Greenlandic for “Hello”) from the other coring team! We are three researchers from the Geological Survey of Denmark & Greenland and our work is all about mud. Not any mud though, only the finest and oldest from the seafloor of East Greenland’s fjords. You may wonder: why should one look at mud if we […]
Greetings from Malaysia—Cheow Mei and Max wanted to have a cool Malaysian greeting here, but people here just say “Hi.” Fortunately, English is the second official language in Malaysia, so Max’s Malaysian vocabulary is limited to “Thank you,” “How are you,” and “Hi.“ We, Cheow Mei and Max work together on the GAME project at […]
Thanks to an extremely favorable weather window with sunshine and little wind, and the skill of officers and crew in navigating around dense ice mélange, we have completed our first survey just ahead of schedule! After 4 days in Kangerlussuatsiaq (also known as Lindenow Fjord) we have completed transects into the two main fjord branches, […]
Hello, I’m Yuping Guo, a PhD student from Zhejiang University now studying at GEOMAR. I participated in the GEOTRACES Pacific Ocean cruise last year, and I am now excited to join Polar Beast as my first Artctic research cruise. On this cruise we will go into 5 Arctic fjords and see a lots of glaciers […]
Who transcends so late through night and sea? It’s the CTD to collect water for thee. It holds a SUNA, tight on its frame; SUNA reveals a nutrient, ‘nitrate’ is the name. ‘Altimeter, why do you hide your face in fear?’ ‘Watch out CTD, the ground will soon appear!’ ‘The fjord’s ground with its sediments […]
This morning as we moved between stations we spotted a polar bear watching us pass! A sub-population of bears is known to live in SE Greenland so the bear presence here is not completely unexpected, but this is a very long way south of the Arctic Ocean where the larger polar bear populations live!