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| Snow on the deck and massive waves!!!!! |
We are now a far cry away from Immingham steaming steadily North and completing science enroute.
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| Running outside to get some sun before the fog surrounds us again! There is lots of fog in the arctic due to the warm atlantic water and the different airmasses flowing over top! |
My favourite passtime at the moment is watching the birds do beat ups along the side of the ship. They also use the waves to get extra energy to get higher.
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| Science is happening. We are currently trying to get into a day and nighttime cycle to capture the plankton that hiberate at depth (diapause). We are doing lots of CTDs which involves the probes which collect temperature, depth, oxygen, salinity and floruesence data. We then collect the water and filter it onto different sizes of filters to be analysed for POM, DIC, Fatty acids and many more biological things back at the lab! |
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| We are in the middle of the NT line, the last red dot is in the ice so it's about to get even more exciting! We are then heading for the F-line but we are not sure how far east we can go before the ice is too thick. We are having major kit issues at the moment which are all being quickly resolved; when these are fixed I will do some more indepth blogs about the individual projects that are happening on this cruise! |
