>German version below< It’s kind of crazy that you want to investigate the oceans and have to go to the mountains first. Huh, why is that? I haven’t quite understood it yet myself , but that is what I did.Due to the Corona pandemic, it is unfortunately no longer so easy to explore the ocean […]
After 5 months of extremely intense preparations, the cruise SO287-CONNECT finished successfully in Guayaquil (Ecuador) on 11.01.2022, a harbour town in the tropical Pacific, the fourth ocean area we passed during a transit of around 6000 nm (11,000 km) towards this important working area of RV Sonne. After pandemic caused 20 months of work in […]
english version below Der letzte Tag an Bord. Die ersten von uns haben heute am 11.12.2021 bereits das Schiff in Richtung Heimat verlassen. Der Rest tritt morgen die Rückreise oder den verdienten Urlaub in Quito, der Hauptstadt Ecuadors oder auf den nicht weit entfernten Galapagos Inseln an. Zum Abschied einer Expedition wird traditionell ein Expeditionssticker […]
The cruise is coming to an end, and there are 8 days left until we enter the port of Guayaquil. While some of the measurements on board can be read out directly and preliminary interpretations are presented during the cruise, there are also a lot of samples that can only be analyzed in the laboratory […]
It was a nice and sunny day, like most of our days on the Alkor, the research vessel of our cruise. Steady noise coming from the winch and anticipating buzz, which surrounded a group of students with safety boots and helmets, filled the air. Once the upcoming net broke the water surface and got „gehievt“ […]
German version below The stars at night are the same, the world keeps turning and (almost) everything remains the same in the rest of the world. But after a 23-day transit between the Northwestern African coast and the Central American coast, with few signs of civilization (only a few cargo-ships at a distance) and a […]
(Deutsche Fassung weiter unten) Most people here on board are busy taking water samples and evaluating nutrients and many different chemicals of natural and anthropogenic origin from the Atlantic Ocean water at various depth. But we from the Institute of Environmental Physics (IUP) of the University of Bremen detect atmospheric trace gases with our instruments […]
In our search for microplastic we deploy the neuston1 catamaran. Its net collects the surface water and filters it through a net of defined pore-size, 300 µm in our case. In order to collect a sample it is let down into the sea and then towed next to the vessel for several minutes at a […]
Das Forschungsschiff Sonne rauscht leise und kaum wellenbewegt gen Westen durch den tropischen Atlantik. Ein tolles Schiff mit jedem Komfort für die Wissenschaft – durchdacht von der modernen Ausrüstung zur Wasser-Probennahme und für Beobachtungen der Wasseroberfläche und der Atmosphäre, bis hin zu gemütlichen Kammern und einer Messe mit 1A-Seeblick. Dazu kommt eine gute Verbindung zur […]
Die erste spannende Woche auf See liegt nun hinter uns. Und was soll man sagen? Der Leitspruch „having a plan, but being flexible“ ist voll aufgegangen. Die Messungen im Verlauf der Wasser- und Luftmassen laufen und die ersten Interpretationen der Ergebnisse haben begonnen. Der vorerst südlichste Bereich der Forschungsfahrt ist erreicht und der Kurs steht […]