I saw Alex at the base of the stairs as I was coming down to get my breakfast. He just said 'we are going to release it in ten minutes' full of excitement and walking in a hurry. The seas had calmed…
I went to bed last night past midnight, so I knew I would have hard time waking up at sunrise. I asked to be woken up for the mooring recovery, so when I woke up at 10:30 am I knew something had not…
The day to recover the mooring has arrived. But before I get to the description of the mooring recovery operations, which is very exciting in itself, I want to explain what is a mooring and why we…
We liked yesterday so much aboard the Palmer that we are having it again! I am no longer writing from the future, since we reset our time to account for the passing of the date line. If you have been…
How much of an iceberg sticks out of the water?
You will find here that the answer depends on the density of the iceberg.
Most of us have heard the expression, 'that is just the tip of the iceberg…
Today I am having a hard time seating down to write. This time is not due to heavy seas like before. This time is the gorgeous scenery out there that is keeping me from my desk. I have made many…
For the first time in four weeks and a few days, I stepped out of the ship even though we are not even halfway through our cruise. Oh, all this happened at the same time we lost e-mail connection…
We are no longer sailing east. We have turned south and are heading back towards Antarctica along the 150 W meridian. We will be very close to the shore in a couple of days, where we hope we will…
We are very sad to receive news from Japan's terrible earthquake. Our thoughts are with the Japanese as they try to bring normalcy to their lives. It took less than a minute for hundred of thousands…
Science continues aboard the N.B. Palmer, and today we had our first science lecture by Dr. Jim Swift, the chief scientist of the cruise. We plan to have a science talk every Saturday at 12:30 pm…
I am enjoying so much working on this journal. Topics arrive like magic! I go to bed trying to figure out a topic for the next day, but sometimes when I wake up, something happens that redirects my…
How much should we trust our data? In the face of unusual data, when do we toss it out or go after a groundbreaking theory?
This is a permanent question in the quest for knowledge. There is no…
