Just wanted to tell you guys how the tournament went, it was full of surprises, experienced players including myself being beaten by new players, I got beaten on the first round by Rich, it was his third or fourth time…

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Our last station is done. From this point forward it will be waiting and enjoying the life on the ship. probably going to set up a backgammon tournament, I started to teach Brice the game about a week ago, lets…

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Well not much is happening at the moment, beside the seal tagging. Brice will probably upload some cool stuff since is he is going on the ice to that. Tomorrow at mid night we will be at shelf break again…

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It is final we are going to use single samples instead of doubles, it will be 6 casts. Averaging 10 samples we will do around 60 samples in the next 16 hours, I think I will take the first 8…

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They are going to do some CTD stations tonight and tomorrow, which we are interested in. Brice is thinking about not taking double samples anymore and switching to one sample for each Niskin, meaning we can sample around two hundred…

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Beside the bug brush everything else stopped working on the ship, the CTD cable had some problems with it so they had to re-terminate the end, which means they had to remake the connection between the CTD and its conducting…

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Not much going on right now, we have 2 PIs for the cruise, Adrian and Karen, Adrian is responsible for the ice melting phenomena happening beneath the Ice sheets and Karen is PI for ocean2ice part which is the one…

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Well the work is done, my part was done at 1pm 11th, and this is 4pm 12th right now, I was awake for about 6 hours in the last 27, meaning a good 19hour sleep. Missed all the meal courses,…

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We arrived in front of the ice shelf, it was a little bit scary watching the ship moving straight toward a wall of ice, we stopped close enough so we can start sampling, it will be a twenty four hour…

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Finally the weather started to act like Antarctica, I can no longer go outside on the deck for a smoke with a T-shirt, equipment started to freeze, the CTD rosette froze over and they had to wait and do some…

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