Publication Date:
2024-09-25
Description:
MARIA S. MERIAN Cruise MSM106 was conceptualized as a joint research and curricular
education cruise. The training component of MSM106 was part of the curriculum of the
international Master program "Climate Change and Marine Sciences", which is currently being
implemented at Universiade Técnica do Atlãntico (UTA) in Cabo Verde within the framework of
the BMBF-funded WASCAL program ("West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change
and Adapted Land Use"). Students from 12 West African countries participated in this cruise.
Several modules of the curriculum were taught theoretically and practically at sea. Throughout the
cruise West African students got involved in the different research components of MSM106.
First, a mooring and an autonomous surface vehicle equipped with novel instrumentation for
pCO 2 analysis got deployed at Nola Seamount near the Cabo Verdean Island Santo Antao to carry
out a 3-month long test deployment. After ADCP and hydroacoustic biomass surveys near the
archipelago an anticyclonic mode-water eddy near CVOO was investigated intensively (incl. CTD
section, biogeochemical & ecological samplings). A full time-series sampling was conducted at
CVOO as well. After this, daily stations along the transit towards Germany were carried out. Off
Canary Islands the ESTOC time-series site was sampled, followed by another eddy survey off
Portugal main land. The daily station scheme was continued along the transit to Bremerhaven. Off
the Rhine River delta an extended sampling for microplastics has been conducted.
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Report
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NonPeerReviewed
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