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Chris German is a marine geochemist who has spent 25 years exploring Earth’s deep oceans for sites of seafloor fluid flow including, in particular, submarine hydrothermal vents. Growing up in Rochester, about 30 miles SE of London, England, he was surrounded by the influence of the oceans. Both of his grandfathers, his father and both … Continued
“I like the fact that it is kind of an extreme environment. It is an environment that is hard to get to, and therefore it is understudied. Quite frequently, you bump into unexpected things.” “I love the challenge of trying to understand a part of the world that is very significant: the blue-water oceans are … Continued
We are nearing the shores of Tahiti, where tomorrow morning we will officially conclude what has been an amazing scientific expedition onboard the R/V Falkor. In a week or so, the Life Without Oxygen team of scientists and I will be back to our respective institutions – Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, the University of Maryland, … Continued
When it comes to Oxygen Minimum Zones, microbial life, and life on the open ocean, most of us do not have a lot knowledge. So we sat down with the scientific party and shared with them some of the questions that we’ve received from several 5th grade classes that we have interacted with through our … Continued
In this video, researchers onboard Falkor show and explain the methods, tools, and processes being used to study plankton, gasses and metal traces during the “Investigating Life Without Oxygen in the Tropical Pacific” research cruise.
Hello there! I’m Michelle, the Artist-at-Sea. I’m happy to report that my stocked supplies are well-matched to this trip. The few days I had to prepare for this opportunity meant rapid-response project planning and supply gathering. To maximize my creative options, my strategy was to bring simple materials with broad potential. Having amassed a personal … Continued
PALO ALTO, CA – Less than three months after announcing Falkor Seamount, an underwater mountain discovered and named by the crew aboard Schmidt Ocean Institute’s research vessel Falkor, the team has found and named another underwater feature. The U.S. Board on Geographic Names unanimously approved Engineers Ridge on January 19, 2016. Named after the “unsung heroes of … Continued
Hello readers, My name is Erin McParland and I’m currently in the third year of my PhD at the University of Southern California in the Marine and Environmental Biology Department. I study a sweet-smelling sulfur gas, called dimethylsulfide (DMS for short) that is found in the upper surface ocean throughout the world: If you have … Continued
Plankton are a miracle because they are made up mainly of protists which are single cells. Protists come in thousands of shapes and sizes ranging from microns to millimeters. They can have silicate scales, frustules or loricas. They can have pseudopods, flagella or cilia. They can live in colonies of many cells together, act as … Continued
I’m the Chief Scientist for this R/V Falkor expedition. I have found that even if people are often interested in our oceanographic cruises, it is actually a challenge to express during conversations what it is really like to study and live on the oceans. Here are three thoughts about that: 1- The oceans are enormous It’s … Continued
