Exploring the Western Labrador Sea Aboard the RV Meteor – Week #1
By Anne-Sophie Fortin Departure from St John’s Harbour August 11-12, 2022 The water is still in the harbour by night. Shrouded in what seems like a perpetual mist, the Meteor…
A Modeler’s First Cruise
By Daan Reijnders “Well, I’m somewhat of a stowaway here…” This is how I’ve been introducing myself to some crew members in the messroom during dinner or when fetching some…
The night shift
By Phoebe Hudson It’s 11 pm – time to wake up! I re-open my porthole and it’s now dark outside, with only the whitewash as a contrast against the dark…
Start of OSNAP East
by Femke de Jong After four years the University of Miami and Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) teams are once again out at sea together again. Four years…
Fallen out of time
By Marilena Oltmanns Tirelessly, full of determination, and with a hint of stubbornness, the ship cleaved its way through the sea. It hadn’t seen land for days and now, in…
Greetings from RSS James Cook! (Part 2)
By Rita Markina On 15 July, we recovered the first mooring system at the easternmost point of the OSNAP array. A mooring is an anchored system that consists of many…
Greetings from RSS James Cook!
By Rita Markina The UK OSNAP team left Southampton on 12 July and is heading into the sub-polar North Atlantic. We will be working on the very eastern part of…
OSNAP GDWBC 11 July 2022
By Ellen Park Life at sea is organized chaos. Each day is incredibly valuable because sea time is so expensive. As a result, prior to stepping foot on the boat,…
OSNAP GDWBC 07 July 2022
by Ellen Park On our eight-day transit to the Irminger Sea, we completed a few calibration casts for instruments that will be deployed on the OSNAP moorings and saw some…
OSNAP Greenland Deep Western Boundary Current (GDWBC) 01 July 2022
by Heather Furey It’s been a minute. The sun is shining, it is a perfect July day on the Irminger Sea. After an eight-day transit, some amount of CTD casts,…