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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...
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...
