Plattform Platform	Reise-Nr. Cruise-No.	Zeitraum Period	Projekt Project	Arbeitsgebiet Working area
Sonne1	SO234-2	08.07.2014 - 20.07.2014	SPACES	Indian Ocean

Fahrtleiter Chief Scientist	Institut Institute	Auslaufhafen Port of departure	Einlaufhafen Port of return	Stationskarte Station map	Schiffsroute Trackchart
Kruger Kirstin	Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR)	Durban	Port Louis

Ziel der Reise / Objectives of Cruise:

Within the frame work of the BMBF-project OASIS ("Organic very short lived substances and their Air Sea Exchange from the Indian Ocean to the Stratosphere") the research cruise SO234-2 of the German research vessel SONNE was organized and conducted by the University of Oslo, Norway (www.uio.no) together with the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany (www.geomar.de) from 08 to 20 July, 2014 in the subtropical West Indian Ocean (Figure 1). The SO234-2 cruise was primarily planned as a training and capacity building cruise for students from southern Africa and Germany within the BMBF SPACES ("Science Partnerships for the Assessment of Complex Earth System Processes") program. Fifteen students from South Africa, Namibia and Germany participated, along with 9 scientists and one observer from Madagascar. The training and research covered air-sea gas exchange between the atmosphere and the ocean, and the transport of ocean trace gases from the Indian Ocean to the stratosphere during the southwest Monsoon as well as the determination of important biogeochemical parameters. This research project was funded within the national BMBF program SPACES within the project SO235-OASIS (Grant: 03G0235A).

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