by Eike | Mar 17, 2014 | Big Science - Little Words
Ines Stuhldreier (MSc, PhD candidate) In 2012 I had the pleasure to spend 4 months on the beautiful island Koh Phangan in the Gulf of Thailand, to enjoy the stunning under-water-world, hang out on tropical beaches, meet awesome people, eat looooots of good Thai food,...
by Eike | Mar 15, 2014 | Big Science - Little Words
As part of my diploma thesis, I joined the CORE-SEA-Team from February to May 2011. Rapidly increasing tourist numbers in the area of the lower Gulf of Thailand, accompanied with water pollution, overexploitation of marine resources and disturbances by dive...
by Eike | Feb 22, 2014 | Big Science - Little Words
Hauke Schwieder, Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology (2011, edited in 2014) In “little” Words A lot of nutrients can be bad for slow growing corals. Their “arch-enemy”, algae, love it and they use it to grow even faster than usual. Like...
by Eike | Feb 7, 2014 | Big Science - Little Words
The state of eutrophication and overfishing in the Samui Archipelago, lower Gulf of Thailand Eike Schoenig1, Hauke Schwieder2, Susanne Pusch2, Panthanee Pengsakghun3, Kai Vetter4, Emma Shaw3 1: CORE sea, Thailand; 2: Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Ecology,...
by Eike | Mar 7, 2013 | Big Science - Little Words, stand up for reason
After we posted the article about the history of the Gulf of Thailand (read here), we were asked a couple of very good questions. The questions are quite fundamental and philosophical in nature, but let’s see if we can get them sorted. When were there 100%...
by Eike | Mar 6, 2013 | Big Science - Little Words
Welcome to the Gulf of Thailand, which covers roughly 320,000 square-km, connecting Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and Malaysia with the South China Sea, and ultimately the pacific ocean. You’ve come to visit a rather peculiar body of water. The Gulf is very young and...
