Humans love categorizing things. We need categories, so that when I say ‘chair’, you know I mean the thing I can sit on without having to say ‘the thing to sit on’ every single time. In movies and stories, we love to see ‘the bad guys’ beat up and ‘the good guys’ win. Seeing the […]
By the time this blog entry is published, I will have completed my first year as a doctoral candidate at GEOMAR. And what a year it was! As a university student I heard all the stories, I read all the memes and saw all the videos on #PhDLife. I thought I knew what I was […]
Eine deutsche Version ist weiter unten zu finden. Part four: Digging deep and saying goodbye! The methods we had a look at so far are all geophysical, indirect methods, because the measurements of the rocks/sediments below the sea level are done without collecting any samples. Often, geophysical data can be acquired fairly easily and fast, […]
Eine deutsche Version ist weiter unten zu finden. So far, we only had a look at methods, which are sensitive for acoustic properties of the water, the seafloor and underground. However, there are physical parameters which show strong differences between salty and freshened water and make it easier to distinguish between these two. For example, […]
Eine deutsche Version ist weiter unten zu finden. Just as Sherlock Holmes is only as good a detective as he is, since he considers all the evidence he can find and does not rely on fingerprints alone, here in the Gulf of St Lawrence, we apply all the methods available to us, in order to […]
Eine deutsche Version ist weiter unten zu finden. Welcome back! Now, let me tell you who the royal adventurers (because of PRINCE, get it?) are on this journey. On this ship, we are 24 crew people and 21 scientists. We scientists are further categorizable as follows: 7 Doctoral Candidates (DC), 5 Student Assistants (HiWi), 3 […]
Welcome to our PRINCE blog! Here it is! Our first blogpost of the MSM103 expedition. It took us a while to get things going here on the side and we have been on board for a while, so let me give you a brief summary of what happened so far: Saturday the 11th of September […]