Dear interested reader, colleagues, friends and families, let’s take a deep breath now. Imagine, you are swimming in the ocean and, suddenly, your body is sinking, sinking and sinking. Imagine, you are sinking for hours and days. You reach the seafloor, where your body dissociates into a nutritious cloud of carbon. Eventually, this carbon is […]
Bright flows in the darkness
Dear interested reader, family, colleagues and friends, we are the geologists (“The Kardashians of science” ~ Dr. Sheldon Cooper) on board during this Meteor expedition in the Atlantic Ocean. May you heard already that oceanic crust is built along the mid-ocean ridges – the longest volcanic mountain chain on our planet. Over time, the newly […]
from MehrMeer2017 Blog
… noch ist es nicht soweit, aber …
(Beitrag von Joachim Dengg, GEOMAR) … das hindert uns natürlich nicht daran, schon mal von den Vorbereitungen zum Ozeanworkshop mehr meer 2017 auf Helgoland zu berichten! Im Moment sind noch Bestellungen für Materialien auf den Weg zu bringen, Dinge zu koordinieren, Blogs einzurichten (wie man sieht), usw. Einen guten Teil der anderen Arbeiten haben […]
from Baltic Gender Blog
Sharing the caring: Senior Lecturer Sebastian Sobek
Nature of your work. Senior Lecturer at Uppsala University. Research and teaching. Leading a research team of about 10 persons, and supervising their work. Administration. Career as a researcher. 2005 PhD in Sweden (Uppsala University). 2006-2009 Post-doc in Switzerland (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), and Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology […]
In case of emergency
Dear interested reader, colleagues, friends and families, safety is one of the most important requirements for our research cruise with the RV Meteor. It needs the expertise of the crew and strict rules for all people on board. In addition, all of us participate in exercises to be prepared in the case of emergency. There […]
from Ocean Navigator Blog
Die perfekte Illusion
Sind meine Augen offen oder geschlossen? Eine tiefe, schwere undurchdringliche Dunkelheit umgibt mich, die es unmöglich macht diese Frage zu beantworten. Ich versuche mich zu bewegen, aber meine Anstrengungen führen ins Nichts und ich gebe auf. Ich treibe dahin und weiß nicht ob ich dieser vollkommenen Finsternis entkommen kann. Sehr weit entfernt sehe ich plötzlich […]
Working in the night
Dear interested reader, colleagues, friends and families, after days of travelling and lab work, we arrived at our sampling station in the Atlantic Ocean (Image 1-4). Our schedule is meticulously prepaired, there is not much time for reports. But we want to let you know, that we are fine and excited about the next discoveries […]
The zoo of the RV Meteor
Dear interested reader, colleagues, friends and families, we are still working with the samples of the first station in the Caribbean Sea and expect our arrival at the next station in the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday night. Whenever we have a low and there is a need for motivation, we cast a quick look at […]
How we study virus diversity in the deep sea
Dear interested reader, colleagues, friends and families, as mentioned in our last blog, we took water samples across 4000 m depth using the CTD (conductivity, temperature, depth) – rosette sampler at our first station in the Caribbean Sea. Here, we are interested in the distribution of viruses, bacteria and protists (unicellular organisms) in the depth. The […]
First living ciliate found in over 4000 m depth
Dear interested reader, colleagues, friends and families, we arrived at the first sampling station in the territorial waters of the Dominican Republic in the Caribbean Sea. During 60 hours of team work, we took water and sediment samples across 4000 m depth using three different systems: Water samples were taken from multiple water depths with […]