from Diversity Blog

WOMAN, LIFE, FREEDOM! – FRAU, LEBEN, FREIHEIT!

A take-over by Iranian colleagues./Ein Beitrag iranischer Kolleg:innen. ***German version below*** Tomorrow is Human Rights Day – an occasion to remind ourselves of the situation in Iran and that human rights are indeed fundamental rights but cannot be taken for granted.We have all heard about the protests in Iran by now. This revolution is not […]

from Game Blog

初めまして。

This is a Japanese greeting that is used when Japanese meet someone for the first time and introduce themselves. We are team Japan from the Akkeshi Marine Station (AMS). Akkeshi is a small town that is located in the east part of Hokkaido. It has a port and is surrounded by a unique wetland terrain and a brackish lagoon that […]

Colors in the deep – an ode to deep-sea sea cucumbers

Deutsche Version siehe unten Lilian Boehringer, Alfred-Wegener-Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, Germany The deep sea is generally considered that part of the ocean where little to no light penetrates the water column, approximately below 200 m depth. The average water temperature in the deep sea is about 4°C and continuously […]

Numbers of the journey – a little riddle (part 1)

Deutsche Version siehe unten Mirja Bardenhagen, Marine Resource Exploration – Federal Institute of Geoscience and Natural Resources in Hannover, Germany Hello, my name is Wilma Caffeine and I am accompanying Mirja Bardenhagen on this expedition as a lab rat. As a good rat should, I’m scurrying around in all the nooks and crannies. Thereby I […]

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3.12.22 – Internationaler Tag der Menschen mit Behinderungen/International Day of Persons with Disabilities

***English version below*** Das GEOMAR beteiligt sich mit seiner lila gefärbten Webseite zum morgigen „Internationalen Tag der Menschen mit Behinderung“ (3.12.) an der „#PurpleLightUp Online-Kampagne“, um gemeinsam mit vielen anderen auf die Anliegen und Bedürfnisse von Menschen mit Behinderungen hinzuweisen.Im deutschsprachigen Raum wird diese Aktion von myAbility organisiert, einem sozialen Unternehmen, das sich für eine […]

How the middle of nowhere can feel familiar and how high-tech helps us to study oxygen in deep-sea sediments / Wie sich das Mitten-im-Nirgendwo bekannt anfühlen kann und wie uns High-Tech dabei hilft Sauerstoff in Tiefsee-Sedimenten zu untersuchen

Deutsche Version siehe unten Duygu S. Sevilgen, HGF-MPG bridge group for Deep Sea Ecology and Technology at the Max Planck Institute in Bremen and the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, Germany Wednesday 16 Nov 2022, research vessel SONNE, just after cake-o’clock (every day at 15:00h, today: strawberry cake): wind-speed 10-11m/s, wave-height 1.8m, grey sky, light […]

SONNE expedition SO295: tracing environmental impacts of deep-sea mining / Auf den Spuren der Umweltauswirkungen von Tiefseebergbau

Deutsche Version siehe unten Felix Janssen, HGF-MPG bridge group for Deep Sea Ecology and Technology at the Max Planck Institute in Bremen and the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, Germany Already some two weeks ago we arrived with research vessel SONNE in the first working area 11° north of the equator and approx. 1500 kilometer […]

from Ocean Voices Blog

The sky is the limit

I went to Iceland this summer. You will tell me, it’s not very surprising for a volcanologist and her geologist partner. But we were actually planning to go to Norway which would not have been a boring destination.  We recently left the mountains and cliffs from southern France for the Baltic sea at Kiel, to […]

PART 6 – Against all odds, he made it home

———-english version below——– Auch Wissenschaftler:Innen haben ab und zu Pech und auch in der Forschung läuft trotz aller sorgfältiger Maßnahmen auch mal etwas nicht wie geplant. In unserem Fall war es das OBMT-13, welches sich trotz mehrmaliger Versuche nicht an die Meeresoberfläche begeben hatte. Das Signal wurde detektiert, allerdings wussten wir die genaue Position nicht […]