21 November 2024/Kiel. One of the oldest marine time series stations in the world is located in Eckernförde Bay, just under two kilometres off the coast: Boknis Eck. Since 1957, data on the state of the Baltic Sea have been collected regularly from a ship and, since 2016, also from an underwater observatory on the seafloor. After the device disappeared in 2019, the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel today launched a new, modernised measuring node with the research vessel ALKOR. The underwater station will soon resume providing continuous data on key environmental parameters such as temperature, salinity and currents.