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Last night's station was tough as we found mostly rocks in our grabs, and it took a very long time to sieve the mud and then sort the rocks to see if there was anything on them to preserve. "Empty" rocks were tossed overboard. We had another station this morning and found lots of mud but, once again

As we were wrapping up our station last night it began to snow, and as we moved NW toward Wrangel Island during the night, we were once again rocking and rolling; some found sleep difficult. However, when we woke up for our station at 7 AM, we found that the wind and waves had died down. What a

I first went out with Dr. Jackie Grebmeier in 2002 and this makes my 8th time on a research cruise with her. When I first traveled with Jackie she was at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, but she is now at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory (CBL), University of Maryland Center for

Rule number 1: Always wear your life jacket out on deck, be aware of your surroundings and know your limits. Today we’re going out to complete sampling stations along transect number 6, which means we’re heading out into the Beaufort Sea approximately 46 miles from our home port of Barrow! Every

Soon after leaving Nome, we encountered rough weather. Even when the skies cleared a bit, the wind and waves were often high enough to cancel stations. As we moved out of the Bering Strait and into the Chukchi Sea, we hit the northern edge of a large low pressure area that caused the weather to

Once again, with everyone suited up and ready to go at 4:30 AM, we had to cancel our work at the biology station. The CTD went in successfully over the stern, but it was obvious when the the zooplankton nets were launched over the side, that the roll of the ship, coupled with the dark nighttime

I'm going to start with a quick update from yesterday. After cancelling the previous station due to weather, the ship moved to the next station with the hope that the waves and winds would die down. The quiet day gave people a chance to catch up on sleep, and everyone was ready for the station that

Through the Porthole: What instruments do oceanographers use in the field to collect data? ###Part I: The acoustic Doppler current profiler The acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) is an instrument that measures the ocean current speed and direction throughout the water column using the

Does anyone really know what time it is? One thing I've noticed while on my PolarTREC expedition is that you lose all sense of time. At first I attributed this to the change in time zones and daylight hours, but now I've realized that time is relative to one's daily routine. When your research is