At the Bight, and Oceanographer Heartbreak
OSNAP, Year 3 Leg 1, 56 42.45N 33 42.02W, 19-July-2016, At the Bight, and Oceanographer Heartbreak. by Heather Furey So, we made it! We are at the Bight. I have…
Back on The Line
OSNAP Year 3 Leg 1, 17-July-2016, 58d 45.19N 30d 16.38W, Back on The Line. by Heather Furey We are nearing the end of this cruise. We have four more CTD…
OSNAP Year 3 Leg 1, 15-July-2016, 61d 07.77N 28d 47.43W, steaming north.
by Heather Furey We woke up this morning to the awful news of a van driving into a crowd celebrating Bastille Day in Nice. Our French nationals onboard did not…
Weather day
OSNAP, Year 3 Leg 1, 57 55.86N 25 6.19W, 09-July-2016, Weather day. By Heather Furey Yesterday, the sea was molten silver. No organized swell, just a satin finish top, with…
Another piece of a puzzle
By Tiago Bilo After the 15th day at sea, scientists from University of Miami lead by Dr. William Johns had successfully deployed their fifth deep water mooring under the curious…
New adventures in the North Atlantic on the RRS Discovery
by Loic Houpert It’s been now more than a week that we left Glasgow on the RRS Discovery for the OSNAP cruise DY053. We entered the Iceland Basin yesterday to…
Focus on quality control
By Dasha Atamanchuk This doesn’t sound new: Having bad data is worse than having no data! Anyone who had to deal with ‘fishy’ numbers coming out from instrument will agree.…
SeaCycler Deployment
by Greg Siddall Introduction: The VITALS (Ventilation, Interactions and Transports Across the Labrador Sea) research network is funded to study how the deep ocean exchanges carbon dioxide, oxygen, and heat…
Somewhere in the Labrador Sea
by Marilena Oltmanns 56°N, 52°W. For days we have been cruising around these coordinates, and no matter whether we are some sea miles further south, north, east or west –…
Crossing the deep convective regions in the North Atlantic
by Sijia Zou Another promising year for measuring Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation starts with cruise Maria S. Merian 54 (MSM 54), which departed St. John’s, Canada on 12th May and…