September 2026 - OSNAP

RRS Discovery – DY214 Southampton (UK) to Glasgow (UK)

September 1, 2026 Admin

By Daniel Hampton Hello, I am Daniel, a Coastal Explorer Intern at Adonis Blue Environmental Consultants and the Crown Estate. I recently graduated with an MSci in Marine Biology from…

Heather Furey (WHOI) and Mark Graham (UMiami) get the rosette ready for the first calibration cast of microcats and test of releases before Leg 2 moorings are deployed. Also on the package are the CTD (Conductivity-Temperature-Depth) sensors which relay water property values up a conducting cable as the package is lowered to near the sea floor.

The RV Pelagia, our home for the duration of this cruise.

The mooring team with R/V Pelagia deck crew, standing by a mooring anchor while towing the mooring to its final deployment spot.

Graduate students Roos Bol from NIOZ (left) and James Coogan from SAMS (right), at the CTD computer console.

photo by Penny Holliday

The CTD package, Ifremer/Ovide

Penny working on the mooring spool together with GEOMAR student Ilmar Leinmann (Photo credit: Penny Holliday)

Attaching a current meter to a mooring. photo by Penny Holliday

Robert reels in the rosette.

Feili and a float called Feili. photo by Penny Holliday

ea time for the Principal Scientific Officer of the cruise (Stuart, on the left) during the recovery of the first US mooring, lead by Bill (in the middle). Dom (on the right side) observed with attention the work on the back deck.

Deploying a RAFOS float. photo by Penny Holliday