Hi, my name is Flippy; and me and my buddies have been following this ship for weeks now, but it is still confusing us. What are these people doing? As a young and unexperienced bird of the high seas we learned that it is great to follow these floating metal things, ships they call them. […]
Before I had the chance to participate in the M133 SACROSS cruise, the ocean, in particular, the Atlantic Ocean, was already fascinating, beautiful and somewhat mysterious. Despite lectures, movies, animations, etc. regarding several aspects of physical, chemical and biological oceanography, I could not quite imagine how experiments of measuring the ocean on a research vessel […]
Four days into the new year we will finally reach the coast of South America today. This concludes the Atlantic transect of the RV Meteor, and from now on we will follow a southward route to study the Malvinas Current along the coastlines of Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina. Unfortunately, this also means that we are […]
Luego de más de dos semanas de navegacion, llegó el año nuevo a nuestro buque-hogar. Recibimos el 2017 de una manera muy especial, brindando en la cubierta del METEOR entre sonrisas y deseos de felicidad para todos. Un comienzo de año muy atipico pero hermoso, con olor a mar. Despedimos al 2016 cantando y riendo, […]
Bom, quem me conhece sabe que estar no mar não é novidade, mas estar em um navio alemão, passar as festas de fim de ano (e não estar responsável pelo equipamento de CO2 hehehe) são pontos bastante diferentes nessa minha vida de oceanógrafa. A experiência tem sido incrível! Estou aproveitando a oportunidade de participar desse […]
Ich kann auf M133 ein kleines Fahrtjubiläum feiern, meine zehnte Forschungsfahrt (vier davon mit der METEOR). Auf allen Fahrten war ich mit der Planktonprobennahme und dem Auslesen von Planktonproben beschäftigt. Obwohl die Tätigkeiten somit immer sehr ähnlich waren, sind es die Beobachtungen die man dabei machen kann nicht. Es vergeht keine Fahrt auf der man […]
We are passing the halfway point of the cruise. Today is day 16, another 15 days to go until we arrive in the Falklands. The first two weeks seem to have, on the one hand, passed very quickly, while at the same time it seems like ages ago that we left Cape Town. The wind […]
Rrrriiiiiinnnnnngggg. The nerve-killing noise of the alarm clock pulls me out of my sound sleep and I eventually succeed in opening my eyes. It’s still pitch black outside. Just for a glimpse of a moment, I wish the impaired hearing on my left-ear was enough to overhear this mechanical “GET UP” scream. Actually the reduced […]
Where neither light nor electromagnetic waves can reach, sound waves do. Sound waves can travel way deeper in the ocean than light or electromagnetic waves. With a little of science and imagination, with sounds waves we are able to study the sea floor, currents, and much more, like plankton movements. The ADCP, Acoustic Doppler Current […]
Weihnachten ist geschafft, der Jahreswechsel steht unmittelbar bevor – Zeit für einen Rückblick. »Nicht noch einer«, sagst Du, liebe Leserin oder lieber Leser? Gut, zugegeben, es herrscht kein Mangel an Jahresrückblicken. Und die meisten beschäftigen sich mit immer den gleichen Ereignissen – weil Katastrophen und Sensationen (wenn’s geht blutig) angeblich mehr Auflage oder mehr Klicks […]