I was unable to upload the videos I was making through out the cruise because we did not have live internet and had bandwidth restrictions. I will go back and add the videos to the journal where they…
Our time aboard the Palmer has come to an end when we arrived in Punta Arenas, Chile, after an uneventful sailing across the Strait of Magallanes last Saturday. The water is no longer of a deep blue…
The Journey
I am at Dallas-Fort Worth airport three hours from seeing my family. It is already hard to believe I was here 78 days ago full of illusion and expectation for the trip to come. The…
Today we will reach Punta Arenas, Chile. Everybody is extremely excited to be back on land. I have mixed feelings, since I probably will not go to sea in any other expedition like this one, but it…
The crossing ceremony finally arrived this morning, but I will not be able to tell you much about it because I could not participate on it. I suffer of chronic headaches, and yesterday's was…
Look at he following picture and What is wrong with the following picture and think about what is wrong. It shows the same laboratory scale with the same objects on top.
Same scale gives two correct…
Science is all done on the cruise. People have finished running their samples through the analysis and everyone is busy packing their labs. Seas are still very calm, although there is a bit more…
What a way to finish the science component of the cruise! We did our last station this morning, station 140. We did not have any major equipment failure int he whole cruise. Here is the map for the…
Today's equation is: Styrofoam plus pressure equals fun!! We are almost done with the cruise; we will be done with collecting samples by early morning tomorrow. This means it is time for the long…
Yesterday we received the visit of six Chinstrap penguins while we were at a station. The remained next to the boat for a long time, apparently feeding. These are the first penguins I have seen that…
Finally, a week later, I present to you the materials from Dr. Alex Orsi's science talk. This might be the most technical entry of the journal, but it is also the most important as it presents…
I thought everybody knew penguins do not fly until one of my students waited until the end of the class, when everybody had left the room, to tell me, not to ask me, but to tell me, that penguins do…
