miércoles, 1 de abril de 2009

Blue Planet Deep Sea Part I

Today I would like to remember old times. Lutz Postel invite Javier and me to a cruise on board the research vessel "Alexander von Humboldt" in September 1989. We performed a transect through the tropical Atlantic sampling from primary production to zooplankton metabolism. Some of the results were published (see the abstract below) but the most important was the time we lived. We were in a vessel of the former German Democratic Republic about two months before the Wall disappeared forever. I remember the discussions about the future of socialism. Nobody expected that the comunist system would finish in a few months. As a souvenir of those days, I post some photographs here.

Because of the Javier´s shape, you can imagine that food was not appropriate for a long cruise.

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Yes, I will not change anymore.

The photographer was worst than me.

The only girl on board



And the promised abstract.


Now, a nice video (part I is 10 min) about the animals which promote the lunar cycles we are studying. This an impressive document about the "dwellers of darkness". Compulsory for the members of the Lucifer Team.

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