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The North-South Atlantic Transect (NoSoAT) as Ocean Capacity Exchange (OceanCapX) is a shipboard training on RV Polarstern.
The expedition will depart on 13 November from Bremerhaven, Germany, providing an educational platform to train an international group of scholars in advanced techniques of oceanographic, meteorological and climate observations and analyses on latitudinal transect.
The scholars will learn on the expedition to Walvis Bay, Namibia how to take and process samples with standard sampling procedures and handle the associated data. Causes of natural climate variability and anthropogenic climate change will be discussed in the context of international climate negotiations, as well as ocean governance and its implications for research at sea.
The data collected during the cruise will become part of an established data series. The training is supported by Nippon Foundation, Partnership for Observation of the Global Oceans, Trinity College Dublin and SeaNetwork.
Follow the expedition in real-time at this link.
Cover photo: RV Polarstern © Johannes Lemburg