While many of us will spend the holidays with friends and family, Constructor University Prof. Dr. Andrea Koschinsky and her team and the “Meteor” will be sailing along the coast of Brazil, gathering samples from the Amazon plume. The M206 Amazon GEOTRACES-2 set sail last Thursday from the Brazilian port city of Fortaleza on a fact-finding mission examining the distribution of trace elements, organic matter & isotopes discharged into the Atlantic from the Amazon’s mouth. On top of collecting key data on the state and fate of this vital ecosystem, Dr. Koschinsky and her crew aim to educate and share the entire month-long journey on TikTok, Instagram and the official Amazon GEOTRACES 2 blog.