By Tina Hans (GEOMAR) One main objective of the cruise is to investigate the large-scale ocean currents in the tropical...
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...
By Naomi Krauzig (GEOMAR) One of the most rewarding aspects of M219 has been contributing to the maintenance of the long-term GEOMAR mooring arrays that quietly...
By Joelle Habib (Laboratoire d’Océanographie Villefranche) When you go on a scientific cruise, you always think about the instruments you’re going to deploy, the great data...
By Leonie Jaeger (ICBM Oldenburg) The ocean is the dominant climate regulator of our Earth. I am on board the RV Meteor to conduct measurements that...
Welcome to the M219 ocean blog! Here, we will share updates and stories about the scientific work taking place during this research expedition. We also hope...
There are more than 2,000 species of gobies (Gobiidae) known to science today, making them the largest family of fish in the ocean. But these small...
Recently, you may have heard about something called “El Niño.” But what exactly is El Niño and its sibling “La Niña”? Why do these terms seem...
This is the first blog from GAME 2026 Learning to listenWhat does the ocean sound like? There is the wind moving across Akkeshi Bay, deer grazing...
This post is the last blog of the GAME 2025 project. Unfortunately, it was delayed by several months (the project ended in December 2025), but it...