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Biological Oceanography
in a Changing Ocean
CHASING EDDIES
"Why upon your first voyage as a passenger, did you yourself feel such a mystical vibration, when first told that you and your ship were now out of sight of land?" Herman Melville, Moby Dick
Diazotrophs: The ocean’s natural fertilizers
Similar to the human body that contains trillions of microbial cells that help us with our metabolic functions and health, marine...
Cora Hörstmann
Dec 8, 2022
Everything works out
This blog post is meant to be an acknowledgment of everyone’s work. It is when you have the best team of people that responsibility...
Laura Marín
Dec 8, 2022
Organic matter: does size matter?
The Bentayga is an eddy that rotates clockwise, which affects how the organic matter produced and used by organisms that inhabit the...
José Luis García
Dec 7, 2022
KUN-YU
Hay un término japonés que me gusta mucho tener presente y que aprendí en mis años de práctica del karate que se llama KUN-YU, y viene a...
Rubén Campanero
Dec 6, 2022
Deciphering Eddy Bentayga
At the base of Roque Bentayga, in Gran Canaria, rock art impressions are preserved in the libyco-berber alphabet, indicating the origin...
Javier Arístegui
Dec 5, 2022
Vitamins in Eddies
B-vitamins you may find in your vitamin supplements (cobalamin B12, biotin B7, pyridoxin B6, riboflavin B2, thiamin B1) are important for...
Ronmel Rugama-Montenegro
Dec 2, 2022
Big tiny plankton: sailing through diversity
Mr. Lawrence showing an example of a microscope image taken onboard the e-IMPACT cruise (Image font: Sheldon J. Plankton character from...
Elena Cerdán
Nov 28, 2022
Proxies to elucidate an eddie's life history
An essential part of studying eddies is their biogeochemical characterization. Thanks to the high resolution of this study, we’re able to...
Ianna Luna
Nov 27, 2022
The first sampling
On November 16, we began the first sampling of the cruise, beginning with a time series to study the center of the eddy for 24 hours. We...
Lucía Palacios
Nov 25, 2022
Understanding the eddies
We are south of the Canary Islands to study eddies, which are a phenomenon that consists of circular currents of water propagating...
José Luis García
Nov 22, 2022
Comprendiendo los remolinos
Nos encontramos al sur de las Islas Canarias para estudiar los remolinos, que son un fenómeno que consiste en cuerpos de agua que giran...
José Luis García
Nov 22, 2022
The Effort Before Science
Planning a scientific cruise, we scientists have high expectations of how the month ahead should be. Little time margin is included for...
Aja Trebec
Nov 20, 2022
The Sea Changes First
We cruise through the Nordic Seas, surrounded by northern fulmars and ocean unpredictability.
Javier Arístegui
3 days ago
De la calma a la tormenta
Navegamos por los mares nórdicos, rodeados de fulmares y de los caprichos del océano.
Javier Arístegui
4 days ago
Unlocking the Ocean’s Microbial Secrets with Flow Cytometry
Flow cytometry is a powerful tool for revealing the structure of the phytoplankton community - the tiny but vital organisms that drive...
Felix Lacher
Apr 16, 2025
Meet Aja
Aja Trebec is a PhD candidate at the Biological Oceanography Group (GOB). Her thesis is framed within one of the priority objectives of...
Jana Piñel
Apr 15, 2025
Studying carbon through ocean colour
One might not think much about the blue colour of the ocean. It’s always there, we take it for granted—almost as an afterthought. But...
Markel Gomez
Apr 15, 2025
The Power of Plankton: One small descent for phytoplankton, one giant win for Earth’s carbon storage!
Plankton, even if often barely visible to the naked eye, can be seen from space when they form blooms, highlighting their importance in...
Jana Piñel
Apr 15, 2025
Crossing the equator
On the 1st of April, the Sarmiento de Gamboa crossed the equator and reached the waters of the northern hemisphere after 14 days at sea....
Mathieu Vasey
Apr 9, 2025
CTD 2.0
Unfortunately, at station 3 a CTD rosette was lost to the great Southern Atlantic Ocean. To minimise the disruption to research, we...
Hannah Croysdill
Apr 9, 2025
Bioluminescence: The Ocean’s Night Lights
As the sun sets and the deep darkness of nighttime in the middle of the ocean surrounds us, we don’t know which way to look. From above,...
Hannah Croysdill
Apr 8, 2025
Collecting Saharan and Namibian Dust
Lent to us by the NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, the dust collector functions like a continuous air vacuum (in fact...
Hannah Croysdill
Apr 8, 2025
Station 1: all hands on deck!
It’s always a bit of chaos at the first sampling station; a mix of stress and excitement as the first CTD is lowered, and we get the...
Manuel Brito
Apr 7, 2025
Biological Carbon Pump
The OceanICU expedition aims to enhance our understanding of the key processes of the biological carbon pump as well as the impact of...
Javier Arístegui
Mar 29, 2025
All aboard!
All aboard the Sarmiento De Gamboa! With 20 passport stamps, we set off from the port of Walvis Bay at 13:30 local time. With researchers...
Javier Arístegui
Mar 29, 2025
Diazotrophs: The ocean’s natural fertilizers
Similar to the human body that contains trillions of microbial cells that help us with our metabolic functions and health, marine...
Cora Hörstmann
Dec 8, 2022
Everything works out
This blog post is meant to be an acknowledgment of everyone’s work. It is when you have the best team of people that responsibility...
Laura Marín
Dec 8, 2022
Organic matter: does size matter?
The Bentayga is an eddy that rotates clockwise, which affects how the organic matter produced and used by organisms that inhabit the...
José Luis García
Dec 7, 2022
KUN-YU
Hay un término japonés que me gusta mucho tener presente y que aprendí en mis años de práctica del karate que se llama KUN-YU, y viene a...
Rubén Campanero
Dec 6, 2022
Deciphering Eddy Bentayga
At the base of Roque Bentayga, in Gran Canaria, rock art impressions are preserved in the libyco-berber alphabet, indicating the origin...
Javier Arístegui
Dec 5, 2022
Vitamins in Eddies
B-vitamins you may find in your vitamin supplements (cobalamin B12, biotin B7, pyridoxin B6, riboflavin B2, thiamin B1) are important for...
Ronmel Rugama-Montenegro
Dec 2, 2022
Big tiny plankton: sailing through diversity
Mr. Lawrence showing an example of a microscope image taken onboard the e-IMPACT cruise (Image font: Sheldon J. Plankton character from...
Elena Cerdán
Nov 28, 2022
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