Dear interested reader, colleagues, friends and families, there are regular presentations given by our scientists on the RV Meteor (Image 1). The first presentation was given by the PhD student Alexandra Schönle from Cologne on her research topic “Protists in the Deep Sea”: How do protists (single-celled eukaryotes, which store DNA in a nucleus) survive […]
Fine-tuning and preliminary experiments
Dear interested reader, colleagues, friends and families, now we are already more than 48 hours at the Caribbean Sea. The laboratories are all set up (Image 1). Some of our scientists had some issues to adapt to the strong waves. Thanks to the doctor on board most of us feel better and we started to […]
Boarding on the RV Meteor
Dear interested reader, colleagues, friends and families, with a slight drizzle and a dense cover of clouds, the boarding on the RV Meteor took place this morning in the Port of Bahia las Minas, Panama. Our team is healthy and had the first meals. After a short briefing by the captain, the routine safety instructions […]
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You left too soon
Today, it is Dr. Victoria “Vicky” Bertics birthday, she was born July 1, 1982 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA. In 2004 she received a dual Bachelor’s degree with honors in Biology and Earth Sciences from the University of California in Berkeley. She then started her PhD thesis at the University of Southern California (USC) in the […]
Welcome to our blog on M139
Dear interested reader, colleagues, friends and families, we are pleased to welcome you to our blog “Deep-Sea Microbial Food Webs and Volcanism in the Atlantic Ocean”. Our interdisciplinary and international team from Cologne, Vienna, Kiel and Oldenburg is currently on its way to Panama. On the 8th of July, there will be the departure of […]
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Who is eating the organic material in the OMZ off Peru?
As mentioned in the previous blog entries, the area off Peru is very special, because parts of the water column contain low oxygen concentration or oxygen is even completely absent. I am interested in the very small inhabitants of the water column which adapted to live in the oxygen rich as well as in the […]
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#OzeanKiWo: Schön war’s – danke!
Das war’s. Die Kieler Woche 2017 ging gestern wie immer mit einem fulminanten Feuerwerk zuende. Unser Kollege Qixing Ji hat es im Bild festgehalten und uns die Fotos zur Verfügung gestellt – vielen Dank dafür! Das zehntägige Volksfest war anstrengend, aber auch sehr schön. Das lag natürlich an den vielen Besucherinnen und Besuchern, die zum […]
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Being a female scientist: aquatic ecologist and wildlife photographer Zita Rasuole Gasiunaite
Prof. Zita Rasuole Gasiunaite is the head and lead scientist of the laboratory of Marine Ecosystems of Open Access Centre for Marine Research and a professor at the Department of Natural Sciences of Klaipeda University in Lithuania. At the same time she is a professional wildlife photographer and amateur rider. What inspired you to […]
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#OzeanKiWo – Der Ozean zwischen Faszination und Gefährdung
Kinder bleiben fasziniert vor einem Becken mit Seesternen und Strandkrabben stehen, unsere Kollegin Heidi Gonschior beeindruckt eine Gruppe von Gästen mit ihrem profunden Wissen über die Lebewelt von Nord- und Ostsee, während eine Familie erstaunt die schillernden Farben einer Seemaus betrachtet – typische Szenen für unser Programm “Was lebt denn da im Meer?” Gestern war […]
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What you can’t see- greenhouse gases from the Ocean
Usually, when talking about greenhouse gases, one would think of carbon dioxide, which indeed is very important regarding the Earth climate and human made climate change. But there are two greenhouse gases, which are actually much stronger than carbon dioxide: Methane, with a warming potential 30 times as strong as carbon dioxide, and nitrous oxide, […]