After a year of planning and organizing we come closer to the final date of departure for the research expedition POS519. While everybody is packing gifts for Christmas, we are packing our container which will go on board the R/V POSEIDON on January 2018 heading to Las Palmas. In Las Palmas we will start our […]
The first preliminary results were presented by Dr. Toste Tanhuas Talk on the Ocean Summit in Cape Town got some audience, which listened. The system itself was full functional with minor maintenance needed. Some minor things as a loose screw and precautionary exchange of a small pump after more than roughly 9150 nautical miles were […]
Mit dem Internationalen Workshop on Marine & Atmospheric Science in West Africa vom 13. bis 17. November hat das Ocean Science Centre Mindelo seinen wissenschaftlichen Betrieb aufgenommen. Ab sofort steht es der internationalen Forschung als Logistik-, Konferenz- und Fortbildungszentrum im tropischen Ostatlantik zur Verfügung. Doch welche Räumlichkeiten gibt es im OSCM konkret? Was kann ich […]
Our system has already been working since the start of the Volvo Ocean Race at the 22.Oct.2017 (Leg1 Alicante to Lisbon) and the race is close to the finish Leg2. Follow the race. Our setup runs on the yacht “Turn the Tide on Plastic” with the Skipper Dee Caffari, Liz Wardley supporting us with the […]
The project “Observing the Ocean from Race Yachts CP1756” of Dr. Toste Tanhua (GEOMAR) and Dr. Stefan Raimund (SubCtech) were funded by the Future Ocean Excellence Cluster for new techniques and my PostDoc Position to measure Ocean properties from Volvo Ocean 65 (LWL 20 m) yachts. Who am i, you are asking? I am Sören […]
The second day of the International Workshop on Marine & Atmospheric Science in West Africa had a more official focus. Today, representatives of the Republic of Cape Verde, among them Carlos Évora Rocha (National Director of Maritime Economy of the Republic of Cabo Verde), Dr. Osvaldina Silva (president of the INDP) and Augusto Neves (mayor […]
The first day of the International Workshop on Marine & Atmospheric Sciences in West Africa saw some very interesting talks on different observatories and long-term measurements in the Atlantic, scientific results gained from these observations and future research ideas. In the morning the focus was on the ocean itself, in the afternoon we moved on […]
For this moment we’ve been working very hard. Today starts the first major international workshop at the brand new Ocean Science Centre Mindelo with a traditional icebreaker event. More about the International Workshop on Marine & Atmospheric Sciences in West Africa and the OSCM inauguration ceremony on Tuesday soon here in the blog. All participants […]
After a long and exhausting flight from Europe, we arrived in Lima, Peru, on the 30th of May. Down here we were facing the typical Peruvian winter weather. It was cloudy and rainy and felt almost like Kiel in summer. The next day we went straight to the port of Callao, a place where many […]
Preparations for the scientific operation of GEOMAR research station started After two and a half years of construction, the new GEOMAR research station in Mindelo, Cape Verde, has been completed. Now the preparations for the scientific operation of the Ocean Science Center Mindelo have begun. The project is a cooperation of the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre […]