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…
Taking part in Maria S Merians long, long journey through the Atlantic Ocean and beyond
by Johannes Karstensen, chiefscientist MSM54 expedition The ocean-class German research ships are rarely seen in Germany. They follow a route that is composed by many individual expeditions and converting the…
Go with the flow
‘Go with the flow’: Research on the currents in the subpolar North Atlantic This past July chief scientist Laura de Steur and the crew of the Pelagia set out to…
Survey with Passion
by Huang Lei OSNAP 9: R/V Pelagia (EAST Leg 2) My pleasure to join the OSNAP cruise on Pelagia, to meet kind friends from Europe and America who devote themselves…
Final post from the Thassala
By Camille Lique RREX cruise: R/V Thassala It is been a week since we came back to dry land. After 35 days at sea, everyone was pretty excited to be…
OSNAP East Leg 2 Underway
By Laura de Steur OSNAP 9: R/V Pelagia (EAST Leg 2) After a bright sunny day of loading and getting ready on RV Pelagia in the port of Reykjavik, we…