By Ximena Aguilar, Juan Pardo, Emmanuel Brempong and Merissa Naidoo | “No woman should say, ‘I am but a woman!’ But a woman! What more can you ask to be?” In the words of the pioneer astronomer and feminist- Maria Mitchell, simply being a woman is enough. From the shore to the depths of … [Read more...]
By Mara Gomes, MARE FCiencias, University of Lisbon (Portugal) | Marine phytoplankton, the floating microalgae of our oceans, plays an important role in the Earth system. On one hand they are the main primary producers in our oceans and on the other hand critically influencing the biogeochemical … [Read more...]
By Amabelle Go, Sian Seymour, Stacy Ballyram, Yoania Perez, Ahmad Mohamed | One of the core modules for this expedition is the Oceanography module. This is where we get the opportunity to gain some hands-on experience using different oceanographic instruments as well as analysing the data we … [Read more...]
My name is Lantovololona Felaniaina ….huh…for short Felana. I come from Madagascar, the land of lemurs and the land of long named people. Since my childhood, I have always wanted to be an international scientist, firstly to travel the world and secondly to represent my country as an eminent … [Read more...]
By Luciana Shigihara Lima | Hello, I’m Luciana from Brazil. Since I was a child I felt a deep connection with the ocean and already knew what I wanted to be when grown up. When I was five years old, I kept asking to my parents questions such as why waves brake at the beach or why the ocean is … [Read more...]
By Inge Deschepper and Daniel Gebregiorgis Yirgaw | We are almost through half of our trip from North to South and we are starting to gain a better knowledge of the different water masses that we are passing over using CTD (conductivity, temperature and depth profiler) measurements and other … [Read more...]
By Carla Espinosa and Abigal Cronin | Hola and Dia duit! Our names are Carla and Abi, and we are currently participants on the North South Atlantic Training Transect. We are on board RV Polarstern together with many other researchers, and we took the opportunity to talk to Eva Garcia Vazquez from … [Read more...]
By Walaa Thabet and Eoghan Daly | The senior scientists are telling us the first station on the cruise will be the most difficult one. But what if, the first station is the first station you have ever done so deep? We were about to sample water from different depths in the Atlantic Ocean, … [Read more...]
Written by Andrian Gajigan and Hugh O’Sullivan | We are all here!! Despite a rocky start, with students arriving from far and wide and airport security being what it is, we have made it! We feel like we are part of something special, something big that will have a major impact on all of our … [Read more...]
The effects of climate change are most alarming in the Arctic Ocean, with rapidly rising air temperatures and declining multiyear sea ice. In particular in Fram Strait, the inflow of Atlantic water into the Arctic Ocean has warmed in the last two decades, which might have contributed to the melting … [Read more...]
