I have been studying plastic pollution for more than a decade. I’ve analyzed hundreds of samples in labs, pored over...
Our annual Photo Contest is officially wrapped—and wow, you delivered! More than 1,000 ocean lovers shared their incredible ocean and wildlife photos. Thank you for keeping...
Color Theory Look at this core below (figure 1) and describe the colors and values you see. Fig. 1) A small section of core: 401-U1611B-41R-2W from...
By Naomi Krauzig (GEOMAR) As the research vessel METEOR heads north toward Germany, the CTD Lab has become quiet. For the past four weeks, the CTD...
By Joelle Habib (Laboratoire d’Océanographie Villefranche) When I was a kid, I wanted to be a photographer. I still do, actually. But somewhere along the way,...
Far below the ocean’s surface—where sunlight disappears, pressure skyrockets and temperatures plunge—some of the strangest animals on the planet have evolved to survive. Transparent heads. Glowing...
By Qi-Fan Wu (Niels Bohr Institutet, University of Copenhagen) In 1943, when Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts showed that neurons could be represented by simple electrical...
By Nathalie Rodríguez Lara (GEOMAR), Federico Scarscelli (GEOMAR), Ajit Subramanian (LDEO), Qi-fan Wu (University of Copenhagen), Eduardo Lima (UFPE), Herbert Barbosa (UFPE), Joelle Habib (LOV) and...
By Tina Hans (GEOMAR) One main objective of the cruise is to investigate the large-scale ocean currents in the tropical Atlantic. For that purpose, we are...
By Qi-Fan Wu (Niels Bohr Institutet, University of Copenhagen) During our journey, we saw many beautiful cloud patterns while looking outside the METEOR! Even though people...