OSNAP (Ocean Sentiments, or Newly Arisen Ponderings)
By Ayden Schirmacher, Boston University student As someone who grew up on the west coast of the United States, the ocean has always been a part of me. I think…
Neil Armstrong – Woods Hole
By Emma Brown, Boston College student We arrived in Woods Hole! We immediately began lashing down anything that exciting seas might send sliding. This included various boxes of scientific materials,…
MSM129: St. Johns, Canada to Reykjavik, Iceland
The blog of the cruise can be found here (German & English): https://www.oceanblogs.org/msm129 Chief Scientist: Johannes KarstensenCo-chief scientist: Fehmi Dilmahamod The journey begins Maria S. Merian in the harbour of…
Goodbye green, Hello deep ocean blue
By H Furey The 2024 OSNAP field season is underway. The R/V Armstrong departed her homeport of Woods Hole on 02 June 2024, loaded with gear, and bound for the…
Cruise Report AR69-03
By Fiamma Straneo An awakening of gusty winds and capricious waves Replace images of Reykjavik Hesitant movement on the ship as we abruptly begin Steam, Stop, Sample Rollercoaster at the…
The OSNAP zoo
By Donald Slater The walk-in fridge in the main lab of the RV Neil Armstrong has for the past 5 weeks functioned as anything but a fridge. With storage space…
When the science stops
By M. Yoder, Boston College We boarded the R/V Neil Armstrong as scientists on a mission to collect data and redeploy moorings, and while someone is on shift and working…
Mooring Operations along the CF Array
By Hiroki Nagao On 19 August 2022, the R/V Neil Armstrong set sail from Reykjavík to the cold, stormy waters of the Subpolar North Atlantic. This region consists of a…
Learning the Water Sampling Routine
By Monica Nelson Many of us on the CTD watches are physical oceanographers but we were charged with collecting biogeochemical data to complement the OSNAP mission. In addition to the…
Straneo OSNAP: Cruise AR69-03 intro
By Monica Nelson Out in the Irminger Sea, our world is at once both very small and very expansive. Confined to R/V Neil Armstrong our world consists of the instrument-laden…