Mabuhay from Team Philippines! For the first time in the programme’s history, GAME takes place in the tropical country of – The Philippines! Composed of 7641 islands, the Philippines is an archipelagic country, surrounded by the waters of the South China Sea on its western seaboard and the Pacific Ocean on its eastern seaboard. Literally […]
International Seaweed Symposium My name is Friederike Gronwald. I am a third-year PhD student in the Management Ecology of Marine Macrophytes Group (RU Experimental Ecology) at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research. My work focuses on the hydrodynamic and aerodynamic effects on the drifting behaviour of marine macrophytes with diverse morphologies in the Baltic […]
von Lena Westphal (Nachhaltigkeitsmanagement) Immer häufiger stellt sich heraus, dass in vielen Bereichen im Leben keine Gleichberechtigung zwischen Frau und Mann besteht. Dies hat oft auch den Grund, dass die Forschung zu bestimmten Themen, die für Frauen relevant sind, rückschrittig ist bzw. sich gerade erst aufbaut. So ist bekannt, dass die Klimakrise mehr negative Auswirkungen […]
For those who have never heard of GAME: the acronym stands for Global Approach by Modular Experiments, an internationally oriented research and training program in marine ecology that is in existence for over two decades now. Every year, young researchers from around the world – from Finland to Malaysia, from Japan to Chile – work […]
Hi, Henrike here. You don’t know me? Well, we should change that. Formally, I’m a scientist, a science educator and communicator, and a project manager. Personally, I love taking my dog for walks on the beach, feeling the sun on my face and the wind in my hair. I’m creative, curious, a bit chaotic, often […]
Hello again, I hope you had a nice easter holiday if you are celebrating and that you found time to enjoy spring if you aren’t. For me this year’s easter egg hunt came early and happened onboard of Alkor. Well, at least in some way it did, except that I replaced actual eggs with tiny […]
The ICYMARE conference in Bremen Hi, my name is Josephine, I am a student in the Master’s program Biological Oceanography at Geomar Helmholtz-Center for Ocean Research. I am currently writing my Master’s thesis at the Research and Technology Center (FTZ) in Büsum, which is part of Kiel University. My research focuses on the diversity and […]
Fresh off RV Alkor and back in Kiel, I’m excited to share another blog post about our scientific research cruise AL630. I’d like to tell you something about one of the sampling methods that we used during the cruise. To track the daily movements of zooplankton in the water column at our station BB23 – […]
Hello blog readers, It’s another exciting day aboard the ALKOR630 cruise! The sun is rising, and the bongo nets and water samplers are ready to go. Greetings from Station BB23—one of the most sampled and ecologically important hotspots for phytoplankton, copepods, and fish eggs/larvae. Today, we’re exploring a technique called Lagrangian particle tracking (LPT)—a powerful method for tracing the path of a water parcel in […]
Hi readers, We have successfully completed cruise AL630 on April 16, 2025. After one day without work due to strong northwesterly winds 7-8 Beaufort, during which we entered Rönne harbor on Bornholm Island, the last 5 days of the cruise were packed with work, running continuously in 24-operations in shift work. We therefore were not […]