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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At last we are here, I can see the main land of Antarctica, we have stopped sampling for a few days since other activities on the ship requires the ship to stop, deploying the AUV and seal-tagging. I will briefly…

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We are through the first quarter of our trip and everything is going as planned, from the work perspective, our cold weld method is working and we are sampling as much as we can – until we run out of…

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We’ll be aboard the RRS james clark ross for almost 6 weeks!! If you want to see what we see, check out this link for the JCR webcam

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Hello dear readers This is my first entry to this blog, as you can you get from the title we are preparing for our cruise to Antarctica, this would be my first cruise. These are stressful times for both me…

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Over the past year we have been working on an Arduino based conductivity, depth, and temperature sensor which can be deployed in remote locations. It is currently still in development, but we decided that it would be a good idea…

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