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.
[Eyal Wurgaft]

De machinekamer
Tijdens deze reis vroeg de wetenschap aan ons of wij ook een blog wilden schrijven. Wij zijn het machinekamer team. Op het moment van schrijven bestaat het team uit Martijn en Inno. Jaap en Sietske zijn de twee andere scheepswerktuigkundigen die nu genieten van hun verlof.
[Martijn Heesemans]

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.
[Paolo Montagna]