Heading of 50 degrees. Northeast. Speed of 10 to 11 knots. Calm, blue sea. Now and then, a bird flies by. Nothing has really changed for three days, and it will stay like this for another two days, until we reached our target area, the TAG hydrothermal field. To go there, a plane would need […]
Ahoi from Barbados … the place, from where we start our five-week expedition with the German research vessel Meteor. The aim of our adventure is the exploration and investigation of active and inactive hot springs of the TAG hydrothermal field, which lies on the seafloor in the middle of the central Atlantic Ocean; more […]
Gerd Müller? So heißt doch ein bekannter Ex-Fußballnationalspieler, oder? Das Bundeskabinett kam mir jedenfalls nicht in den Sinn, als unser Chef vor einigen Monaten in einer Besprechung ankündigte, dass Gerd Müller das GEOMAR besuchen werde. Doch tatsächlich meinte er den Bundesminister für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung Dr. Gerd Müller. Eigentlich halte ich mich zumindest für […]
For first time, we developed empirical Green’s functions for tsunamis. The details are shown in the figure. There were two tsunamis in the Solomon Islands region in July 2015 (Mw7.0) and in February 2013 (Mw8.0; known as the Santa Cruz tsunami). The sources of the two tsunamis are very close to each other (see asterisks in […]
A magnitude 7.0 normal-fault earthquake occurred in the Solomon Islands on 18 JUly 2015. This earthquake generated a small tsunami. The epicenter was ~40 km to the north of the 6 February 2013 Santa Cruz Mw 8.0 thrust earthquake. We studied these two events and realized that the recent normal-fault earthquake was possibly triggered by […]
Die Spannung steigt. Seit Monaten sind wir – genauso wie viele Kolleginnen und Kollegen in anderen Einrichtungen der deutschen Meeresforschung – gefühlt nur noch mit einem Thema beschäftigt: Dem bevorstehenden Wissenschaftsjahr 2016*17 “Meere und Ozeane”. Wir starteten mit ersten generellen Überlegungen Ende vergangenen Jahres und setzten die Arbeit mit der Planung konkreter Veranstaltungen und Angebote, […]
People may think that working on sea can be cold, windy, wavy, and with hard shifts – sometimes from 00:00 to 6:00 -, and that living on a boat could be, summing up, quite tough. Even though all these ideas might be partly true, after a long day, having the opportunity to see an incredible […]
Ahoi! My name is Paulina and I am a bachelor student at the Christian- Albrechts-University Kiel. For the second time in my life I get the possibility to participate in an Alkor cruise organized by Jan Dierking from the “Evolutionary Ecology of Marine Fish” Group of GEOMAR. The cruise is a very good experience for […]
On April 13th at 10 am, research vessel Alkor left the GEOMAR pier for resarch expedition AL476, the first of our two 2016 Baltic Sea integrative time series cruises. We are 11 scientists including both experienced researchers and students, and 12 permanent crew members on board. Our objective: to gather interdisciplinary data that will expand […]
WOW! The response to our crowd translation has been overwhelming – Thanks to all you wonderful people out there who are wanting and willing to get involved, and make the material we provide accessible in Chinese, Portuguese and German. (go straight to this link to see the trailer subtitled already, as an appetizer for the […]