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,…
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…