Here we are, headed toward Greenland
In my old bedroom at my parents’ there is a framed cloth with my name and birthday embroidered in thread. Around the border, there are ducks. They are floating on…
“Dinnae expect onything an ye’ll no be disappointed”
Four Decades of Weather and Climate at the Scottish Association for Marine Science Laboratory on the Dunstaffnage Peninsula in the Scottish West Highlands (1972 to 2014) Stuart Cunningham, 29th July…
Of mice and men
by Stuart Cunningham, July 2014. R/V Knorr, mid-Atlantic. “I’m truly sorry man’s dominion Has broken Nature’s social union, An’ justifies that ill opinion Which makes thee startle At me, thy…
Phase 1 of Knorr Leg 2 is Completed
By Amy Bower and Stuart Cunningham Almost within earshot of the bagpipes of Scotland, we deployed the last of the 20 moorings slated for this leg of R/V Knorr Voyage…
Moorings and Birds
by Bill Johns Today marks a week at sea on our cruise aboard the R/V Knorr, and things have been going quite well up to this point. We have settled…
Water Goes Here, Water Goes There
By Amy Bower As described in earlier posts, the purpose of OSNAP is to quantify the ocean’s role in redistributing heat and fresh water between low and high latitudes in…
Outward Bound!
by Bill Johns After much anticipation and seemingly endless planning, we finally set off from Reykjavik, Iceland at 0900 last Sunday morning (July 6th) on Leg 2 of the R/V…
The OSNAP field season is underway!
By Susan Lozier Though thousands of miles from the Labrador, Irminger and Iceland seas, where all the OSNAP action is taking place this summer, I can almost feel seasick at…
NSF awards grants for deployment of new observing system in the North Atlantic Ocean
October 18, 2013 In an effort to study the circulation of ocean waters, a key component of the global climate system, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $16 million…