Four Years Later
Four years ago today, I set sail on the R/V Nathaniel B Palmer out of Hobart, Australia headed for East Antarctica as the educator on a research expedition to map the seafloor and…
Expedition Lecture
Being back in Los Angeles means back to outreach as well! Now I have all the experience, photos and facts from Antarctica to share with you.
Join me at Cabrillo Marine Aquarium…
I'm finishing up packing and getting ready to airport hop my way back home. I will be back to let everyone know about upcoming outreach opportunities and the eventual results of the research done on…
Update
Today we disembarked the R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer. We cleaned up our cabins and turned in our equipment and gear. I was a little sad to leave the ship that has been my home and work for the…
Update
Since we got back a little early, we’ll get to disembark a little early
too. Tomorrow we finish unloading all of the water samples from the
CTDs, then we should be leaving the ship in two…
Updates
We made it back to Hobart! We still have busy days of packing and
unloading before we depart the vessel. We also still have to finish the
official cruise report since we got in early and had…
Update
We’re back in Australian waters. It’s so warm now… its 55F outside! In
a day or so we’ll be back at the dock and disembarking. On the ship
we’re trying to finish up the cruise report and pack…
Update
It’s a good thing we left early. We just missed a storm about a day or
so behind us. We can feel some of the effects rocking and rolling on the
edge of it out here, but it’s not nearly as bad…
Update
We’re still in transit back to the dock. The weather finally seems to
be cooperating with us and we’re making good time. Everyone on board is
busy writing up details of our research…
We’ve left the ice and have deployed our last Argo floats. We’re well
on our way back to the dock. The sun is even starting to rise in the
morning for us now. I probably should have posted this blog…
Due to the nature of our research expedition, there are a lot of
animals living here we didn’t and won’t get a chance to see—like the
stuff that lives on the ocean floor or deep under the ice.…
Update
We finished our last CTD yesterday! It was another really deep
one—3800m. Afterwards we celebrated with chocolate (an increasingly rare
treat on the ship… as is fresh fruit). We also turned…
