Today was Mega Buoy day, meaning that 4 buoys were deployed on one ice floe, creating an Ice-Based Observatory (IBO). The data collected by these 4 systems will give scientists a detailed picture…
We have been too far north to receive email since the evening of August 3rd. Going north is cool. Now that we are heading south again, we are all getting anxious to hear from family and friends.…
Randy Turner is the LSSL Chief Cook, and he and his crew in the Logistics department are responsible for the care and comfort of everyone on board. Randy learned to cook at home-- his parents worked…
Many of the 79 officers, crew and scientists on the 2008-30 cruise of the LSSL. I am up on top taking the picture.
In honor of being at our farthest point north, we sent Styrofoam cups down with…
Studying ice means some rather cool (pun intended) field work, involving transport to remote places and using big power tools as well as some purpose-built devices. Alice Orlich (a undergraduate…
Rick and Will have found a suitable floe and we are going out to deploy an ITP. I am going out on the ice! We helicopter out to the ice and work begins right away.
First Will and Jim drill the…
Today the WHOI team is putting in their first of 5 Ice Tethered Profilers (ITP) of this cruise.
For detailed information on the ITP, please see:
http://www.whoi.edu/ The first thing to do is find…
Though some work the night watch so they end their day with breakfast, and the constant light challenges the brain to differentiate day and night ---- still the ship has routines. Some routines are…
We awoke to snow!
Brian Hunt and Rick Nelson (left) admire Will Burt's 4AM snow creation on the flight deck. Photo by Edmand Fok.
The WHOI team is recovering a mooring today. After yesterday's…
The best way to see what is ahead is to go look!
Me in the helicopter, just before take-off.
This morning I had the opportunity to join the LSSL Ice Observer Marie-Claude Bouchard and U. of Alaska…
It was a day of most, first, biggest and furthest.Today we are at our furthest point west of the cruise: 75.5N, -157.10W
We had our first all-ship polar bear sighting. We saw a mother with two
cubs…
After a yummy Sunday supper of turkey with all the trimmings, the WHOI team and the LSSL deck crew prepares the mooring to go back out into the Arctic Ocean for another year.
The deck prepares for…
