OSNAP Greenland Deep Western Boundary Current (GDWBC) 20-21 June 2022
by Heather Furey So, we are off (Figure 1). The sun is shining, it is a perfect June Cape Cod day. Lines were cast about 20 minutes early; family and…
Transiting to the Irminger Sea
by Sarah Nickford, URI Greetings from the R/V Neil Armstrong! I am a graduate student studying physical oceanography at the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography. Originally, I…
OSNAP/NIOZ Cruise Blog
OSNAP scientist, Femke de Jong, and a team of NIOZ scientists are currently at sea on a research cruise aboard the RV Pelagia. They will be servicing moorings and deploying…
Aboard the R/V Atlantic Explorer east of Abaco, the Bahamas
by Bill Johns At sea again! No, not an OSNAP cruise this time, but in the balmy subtropics at 26°N. I am leading a group from the University of Miami…
Last OSNAP cruise of the season on RV Neil Armstrong is underway – Blog 1
September 12, 2018 by Isabela Alexander-Astiz Le Bras Two weeks ago we left Reykjavik on the R/V Neil Armstrong for the last OSNAP cruise of the season, a five week…
Final week from the RV Armstrong
by Femke de Jong Today we steam for Iceland. After four weeks of mooring operations and CTDs even those among us who are always looking for more data are ready…
Across the North Atlantic Current
by Bill Johns Off we go again! Its the 2018 OSNAP field season and we are aboard the R/V Neil Armstrong, the new pride and joy of Woods Hole Oceanographic’s…
MSM 74 – Blog Entry 5
Over the past week we made great progress in our journey of the sea, surveying an eddy off the west coast of Greenland with repeated ADCP and CTD surveys to…
Spare Time
by Heather Furey Well, this cruise has been singular – definitely the best weather for deployments and recoveries that I have experienced while at sea. I’ve been noticing the things…