scientist's desk
Cast for microbial membrane
Almost got lost there (hitch hiking, not speaking portugese, duh!)
This is how laundry lines look there
A volcanic lake on the volcanic islands
Sperm Whales love this place, too (no, thats not a sperm whale in the picture)
The Azores. Reward for 4 weeks of working around-the-clock and a rough sea.
Steaming towards the Azores
We tied this styrofoam box onto the CTD. Shows what pressure the equippment has to endure
Down it goes
The CTD, jut before being lowered to 4000m depth
Blind passenger. Ships are sometimes a tired bird's last refuge.
Port hole or washig machine?
Rainbow
On the bridge is where it swings the best! Windforce ten, just south of Iceland
Sunset and a calm sea (for once). I lost 6kg during the first week. Guess why!
Pilot Whales playing around the ship
We started from Galway, Ireland
Archaea (red) and Bacteria (green) living in the deeps sea. Shown in a Discovery Channel show "Life in the Solar System".
Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy for Arte in 2000 (TV show)
Molecular Microbiology and Epifluorescence Microscopy for the 3sat Nano Camp 2008 (TV show)
Frank Schätzing (author of "The Swarm") published one of my microscopy pictures in his new book.