Join us as we blog from the research ship MARIA S. MERIAN working to understand the effects of climate change around Greenland. More info
Hi, I am Emilia, marine ecologist. For me ocean is home. First of all, it is home for marine creatures, but temporarily also it is a home for us – visitors living on a ship for several weeks. We all feel that we are lucky ones to explore the realm of marine life in a […]
Aluu (Greenlandic for “Hello”) from the other coring team! We are three researchers from the Geological Survey of Denmark & Greenland and our work is all about mud. Not any mud though, only the finest and oldest from the seafloor of East Greenland’s fjords. You may wonder: why should one look at mud if we […]
Thanks to an extremely favorable weather window with sunshine and little wind, and the skill of officers and crew in navigating around dense ice mélange, we have completed our first survey just ahead of schedule! After 4 days in Kangerlussuatsiaq (also known as Lindenow Fjord) we have completed transects into the two main fjord branches, […]
Hello, I’m Yuping Guo, a PhD student from Zhejiang University now studying at GEOMAR. I participated in the GEOTRACES Pacific Ocean cruise last year, and I am now excited to join Polar Beast as my first Artctic research cruise. On this cruise we will go into 5 Arctic fjords and see a lots of glaciers […]
Who transcends so late through night and sea? It’s the CTD to collect water for thee. It holds a SUNA, tight on its frame; SUNA reveals a nutrient, ‘nitrate’ is the name. ‘Altimeter, why do you hide your face in fear?’ ‘Watch out CTD, the ground will soon appear!’ ‘The fjord’s ground with its sediments […]
This morning as we moved between stations we spotted a polar bear watching us pass! A sub-population of bears is known to live in SE Greenland so the bear presence here is not completely unexpected, but this is a very long way south of the Arctic Ocean where the larger polar bear populations live!
Moin! (“Hello” in Northern Germany) I am Anne and I study B.Sc. Marine Geosciences at the University of Bremen. On this cruise, I am working with Dr. Katharina Streuff from the MARUM institute, based in Bremen. As the cruise goes on, we scan the seafloor bathymetry (Multibeam Echosounder ME122 and ME712) and the sediments (Parasound) […]
You have probably seen photos of icebergs melting in the ocean around Greenland or Antarctica, but did you know that you can hear them too? As the ice melts in the ocean it crackles. Small pockets of air expand as they are heated so bubbles of air in the ice give the bergy bits a […]
When you think of bubbles, you might think of the bath or a bubble tea, but at sea we’re talking about a very different bubble; a “bubble” for trace metals On our first day on board, still in port, we began building our bubble. The bubble is designed for ultra clean trace metal filtration and […]
Joining MSM130 are scientists from 5 continents and 9 institutions. There are several teams onboard with many of the scientists working between two teams to deliver novel interdisciplinary science. We’ll introduce these teams to you properly later, but here’s a brief overview of our work at sea (no specific order!). First up, our physical oceanographers […]