Cruise Diary
The cruise diary provides you with the latest news and stories from our colleagues on board RV Pelagia. The contributions may be either in Dutch or in English, depending on the author.
August 2013
11 August we will arrive in Lisbon and the scientists on board and part of the crew will go home. As a last blog we want to show you some pictures of daily life and some highlights during our third Mediterranean-Black Sea GEOTRACES cruise.
Second Italian blog! :)
Imagine that you could pick an O2 molecule, and just like you would do with a product on a supermarket shelf, turn it around and find a small label with the manufacturer’s details on its back. In the case of a dissolved O2 molecule sampled at sea, there would be two options: either this molecule was locally produced by photosynthetic organisms, or it was “imported” into the seawater from the atmosphere.08/08/2013 15:26
The cruise diary provides you with the latest news and stories from our colleagues on board RV Pelagia. The contributions may be either in Dutch or in English, depending on the author.
08/08/2013 15:26
This MedBlack GEOTRACES cruise led by the Dutch on-board RV Pelagia is a unique opportunity to ‘chemically’ map the Mediterranean and the Black Seas. With its three legs it has a very high sampling resolution and thanks to the amazing Ultra Clean CTD sampling device built in NIOZ, an impressive number of parameters will be measured on macro & micro nutrients and other trace metals.
De machinekamer
After begging, kneeling and the promise of some beers, the bridge team decided to write a blog for the Nioz website…..! We would like to introduce ourselves: Pieter (Captain), Bert (1st Mate) and Alle (2nd Mate), all dutchies!!
After eating some tasty yapral sarma and a doner kebab in a busy place in the Asian side of Istanbul, I was ready to embark on an exciting trans-Med cruise aboard R/V Pelagia. This is Leg 3 that will take us to Lisbon crossing the Aegean, Adriatic, Ionian, Tyrrhenian and Alboran Sea and finally back to the open ocean.
Mediterranean Sea has fascinated traders, explorers, adventurers and philosophers from time immemorial and was the subject of the first underwater exploration by the ancient Greeks. It is still fascinates scientists today and is unique in many respects among the world oceans.