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You have been reading this journal completely add free, but that is about to change. I am advertising a Live Event in which we will be presenting through the computer some of what has been going on the cruise. We will show slides with the pictures of the trip and talk about the science in them. The

Saturday bring us another great science talk in the Palmer. This time Dr. Thomas Decloedt, from the University of Hawaii, explained the use of the ADCP and LADCP for measuring ocean currents. When I have written about the ADCP in this journal I have said they measure the currents in the same way the

It is time to go back to a subject I left unfinished almost a month ago. How do we know the time it takes water masses to move from their place of origin to where we find them? Here is a review of what we have covered about water masses with the date in which I wrote about that topic, in case you

Jim just communicated the whole science team that the cruise will be extended for another two weeks. The National Science Foundation (NSF) approved his request for 15 days more of ship time to finish the work we have not been able to do due to bad weather. It turns the NSF has an emergency fund that

If by any chance you have read the forum on this journal you might have realized that I got a lot of questions from sixth grade students from California. There were a few recurring themes. One of them is 'Life aboard the Palmer', so we begin our series with a visit to my cabin. Cabins come in all

Do not let my lack of writing on Tuesday fool you. I skipped a day because I have been very busy, not because a visit by the Queen of Spades. The game is over, so you can figure who won. That is right, more by luck and chance than to stealth, I was the last one standing with the Queen of Spades on

I am still alive! No Queen of Spades in sight yet. Great day to tell you about he whale close encounters we had yesterday. Wow! that is all I could say. We will start with a picture taken by Dr. Alejandro Orsi, one of the PI (principal investigator) of the cruise. Here is what people were watching

My friends, as I believe we you must be a friend or family since you are still reading my journal (some suspense music on the background). As I was saying. My friends, it is with great gravity that I announce here today that my days might be counted. If that were the case, you might have to find