April 20, 2018
The first blog post from the research trip to the mouth of the Amazon River is now available.
This blog will be updated daily while the team works on the RV Meteor, in both English and Portuguese:
http://amazongeotraces-m147.com/
There will be a blog in German as well:
https://www.planeterde.de/logbuecher/fs-meteor-amazonas
In April, Andrea Koschinsky, Professor of Geochemistry at Jacobs University, will travel to the estuary of the Amazon – as head of a recently approved, interdisciplinary research project on board the research ship, Meteor. The Amazon River is almost 7,000 km long and is not only tremendously abundant but it also transports large quantities of trace metals such as iron and copper and dissolved organic materials. It is these materials that interest the team comprising Andrea Koschinsky, Prof. Thorsten Dittmar from the University of Oldenburg and Prof. Martin Frank from GEOMAR - Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel as well as the four Brazilian partner organizations.
More information:
Research trip to the mouth of the Amazon River: on the trail of the ocean’s material cycle