Today Jim Dunn, Will Ostrom and Rick Krishfield from WHOI will recover a mooring that has been sitting underwater up here in the Arctic collecting data for the past year. The mooring has several…
** The Engine Room Tour**
Chief Engineer Don Stortts kindly gave us an engine systems tour today. Don has been going to sea for 36 years, and he clearly knows this ship. His knowledge and…
**Its all about the water.............. **
Ocean water is like a sandwich. It is stratified-- full of horizontal layers some of which do, and others which do not, mix well with the layers near-by.…
All Hands Help Out
We are cruising along the continental shelf of the Canada Basin in the Beaufort Sea, currently stopped at Station A. Oceanographic data has been collected here since at least…
Bongo Bingo
If you want to see what lives in the ocean, you cast a net, bring it in and look inside to see what you caught. At the beach, a simple plastic sieve filtering sand in the tidal zone…
Fog bows, white rainbows, cloud bows, sea dogs
We traveled through scattered ice this morning.
We traveled through patches of scattered ice this morning.
For most of the morning, we had a **…
Extensive preparations have made to get here: grants written, technicians hired, literally tons equipment packed and sent, crew and ship logistics finalized, scientists traveled from home to here--…
**We are underway! **
The LSSL underway. Below is the port life boat. To the left is one of several cranes on board used to move and deploy equipment.
Our tentative cruise plan is below.
Our…
The first thing you learn when you get on a ship is how to get off. Today we went through several safety drills. We had a Ship Familiarization Session led by 3rd Officer Marian Punch. She…
The Canadian Coast Guard ship Louis S. St-Laurent (Louis) is named for the Right Honorable Louis S. St. Laurent, Prime Minister of Canada from 1949 to 1957. His accomplishments included promoting…
This is my first time ever above the Arctic Circle. The Arctic Circle circles the earth at 66° 33? 39? (or 66.56083°) north of the equator. It is defined by the southern-most point of a "polar day…
"Mom, David asked us to spend the night Wednesday. Can we??" Silence. We all look around the dining room......"Mom will not be here on Wednesday. Ask Dad."
I am leaving! My classroom is set up,…
