Life Beyond the Beaker

So we are still bobbing around the North Atlantic nearer to Greenland now...almost heading back home via Iceland! The Google Earth image above shows all of the mooring and CTD stations that we are completing along the OSNAP E transect! You can see our position tracking on the Marine Traffic website: https://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/details/ships/9688946 Here is the position of the mooring buoys south of Iceland. Firstly we sampled within Rockall Trough, which is near Scotland, then we scooted over to the Icelandic Basin followed by the western Irminger Basin, and we are now working our way back to Reykjavik.  Why are we here? WHOI (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute) explains: ''The vast interface of ocean and atmosphere constitutes one of the Earth’s great interactive engines. The OSNAP program is investing the upper-ocean and atmospheric processes and their influences on one another.'' The mooring buoys that we are deploying are aiding in resear...