Science Update The science team is working on our Day 3 Incubation sampling and collecting more water samples at a station in the Drake Passage. There is weather on the way, so we will be leaving this area soon to head towards land. We hope to start sampling in stations closer to the Western
How Do You Get Diatoms Out of Seawater? At this point, you are probably wondering what happens to all of this water that is collected from the Southern Ocean. A few hundred bottles have already been used to store and transfer ocean water from the two sampling rosettes to various lab areas of the
First Official Samples It has been a busy few days on the RVIB Palmer. The science team collected the first set of samples for the incubation experiment. If you remember reading about the incubation prep, you know that the team cleaned numerous bottles to prepare for the experiment. The
There are a lot of articles about global climate change, some of them are based on science and data while others are based of opinions. This lesson will promote critical thinking about global climate change. Students will research articles that are about climate change, summarize the article, and decide if the article provides evidence (facts) or is composed
Thanks for Waiting We officially moved onto the RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer one week ago and we have already sampled ocean water for our first incubation. You have been patient with me as I explained the use of the FlowCam, learned how to sample nutrients and walked you through the requirements for
First Signs of Ice The plan for today is to sample for our first incubation, which means the science team will be extremely busy all day. I may not have time to write a detailed journal today, so I thought I would show you some pictures from our first signs of ice. We were moving through fog most
Weather Window After dealing with some very rough sea conditions for the last few days, we found a weather window late yesterday that provided us the opportunity to sample seawater. As you learned in yesterday's journal, sea water can be sampled using the ship's onboard flow-through system
Nutrient Sampling Early sea conditions prevented the science team from collected large seawater samples using the Nisken bottles. Once we were far enough offshore, however, the science team was able to start collecting small volume samples using the ship's flow-through system. This system collects
Open Water I know that I promised a journal about diatoms for today, but I am so in awe of our building weather conditions that I decided to tell you a little bit about our experience rounding Cape Horn and entering the Drake Passage. I will introduce the star of this research cruise in another
Open Water At approximately 0610 this morning, we exited the protected Straights of Magellan and entered the open waters of the Atlantic ocean. I knew we had entered open water because the ship immediately started moving due to the waves and sea swells. We are heading towards Isla del Estado at
