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News Update## We are currently on a run headed east towards Banks Island with rosette CTD casts occurring about every 3 to 5 hours apart. It's all fairly routine at this point: rosette is cast, rosette is retrieved, samples are taken, samples are processed, samples are analyzed or stored, and

"Travel tips: How to avoid carsickness, seasickness and airsickness... Be careful what you eat. And stay home." I love that "Travel Tips" quote by Charles M. Shulz, the american cartoonist best known for his comic strip Peanuts featuring Charlie Brown. However, staying home wasn't an option that

News first## Things are starting to fall into a routine. There are still many pieces of equipment to set up but the CTD casts are happening routinely and the required onboard sample processing and analysis are well underway. CTD stands for Conductivity, Temperature and Depth. Along with those

Dr. Joel Llopiz braves the elements to fly an Arctic Artwork flag created by students at the Anvil City Science Academy in Nome Alaska!

The video was taken only a few hours before the decks were secured for rough weather!

My Polar Profile of the day will focus on Dr. Mike Lowe. Mike is a research scientist and works for the Louisiana State University Agricultural Center. After seeing his first Great White shark off the coast of California when he was just 5, he imagined that he would become a Shark Biologist. That

Yesterday was a day of travel mostly. First was a two-hour flight from Yellowknife to the small village of Cambridge Bay. The flight was mostly folks on the JOIS cruise. From there we were air-lifted by helicopter from the small airport to the ship. Then the common experience of retrieving bags

The Joint Ocean Ice Studies (JOIS) 2017 expedition has a plan. Actually there are lots of individual plans but they all have to be carefully coordinated and choreographed so that there is as much efficiency as possible built into the system. That responsibility falls to Bill Williams. He is a leader

Today’s Polar Profile will focus on Chrissy Hernandez, a PhD candidate with the MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography. Chrissy works with Dr. Joel Llopiz in his lab at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). She attended Columbia University's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences