Which day is today?
By Camille Lique If you ask anyone on the ship “which day is today?”, it will likely take a few seconds before you get an answer. It might actually even…
Upcoming OSNAP events
There are a number of OSNAP events coming up over the course of the next few months. You can follow the cruise blogs here: http://www.o-snap.org/news-events/blog/. Please feel free to send…
Playing jigsaw with strategy
By Camille Lique So. Here was the plan. Fairly simple on the paper. Leaving Brest on June 6th. Five days of travel to reach the South CTD section (each blue…
RREX Cruise Observations
By Camille Lique First, if you want to know where we are right now, have a look here. We are now running measurements at full speed. This means that we…
RREX 2015 cruise underway
By Camille Lique It has been almost a week since the RREX 2015 cruise started. After loading all our scientific equipment onto the N/O Thalassa, and finding a place for…
Assistant Scientist – NOAA/AOML
NOAA/AOML’s Physical Oceanography Division has announced the opening of three new positions. These positions are at the ZP3/ZP4 level (equivalent to GS12-14 level, or assistant to associate scientist with tenure).…
Understanding the variability of ocean transport and mixing measured by the OSNAP array
By Chris Wilson and Neill Mackay The OSNAP array (Figure 1) will sample what is effectively a two-dimensional ‘slice’ of the ocean for several years at high spatial and temporal…
Four decades of deep ocean measurements in the eastern subpolar North Atlantic
by Penny Holliday The OSNAP array is designed to meet our scientific objectives by making the most of existing measurements as well as collecting new observations. The eastern part of…
The missing heat
by Nick Foukal For the past 15 years, the slope of the global-mean surface air temperature (GMST) record has plateaued, a change that almost none of the IPCC global climate…