Mindset Adventures With Saz

Well, I am about to be unfurloughed part-time....which means slowly getting back into the rhythm of work. Not sure what that rhythm is going to be because I am not allowed back in the office or labs yet and lots of kit is still to be organised before people can get out on the vessels alas in the meantime this is summary of the science we've been up to at SAMS before lockdown.  Seol Mara, this wee beauty above is getting her recoding survey completed next week which means if all goes well we might be able to get back onto the water mid-July! In the photo above we were going through a big tidal race just south of Easdale, I was helping Max deploy a mooring. Such a beautiful hot day for January. Max a postdoc at SAMS who loves being outside and was super psyched to have a day out on the boat. We managed to deploy his ADCP to get him some current data. Straight from the depths of Wiki, "an acoustic Doppler current profiler is a hydroacoustic cur...

When I came back from Rothera in January 2019 I was straight back to work! Seol Mara our smaller vessel was on the slip at Corpach where it was having its annual maintenance. Norman and I brought the boat back, this was the first time that I practised driving her, such a perfect day with the snow on Ben Nevis reflecting back off the Loch. It was February when we collected Seol Mara and at 5-6 kts its a slow slog from Corpach (Fort William) back to Dunstaffnage (near Oban) so we ended up coming back in the dark. It was great nav practice to get through the narrows under Radar.  In between working, we had a duty to keep out qualifications up to date, we learnt lots during the BASP Outdoor First Aid I also had a great trip up to Eyemouth with Lars, we were collecting seaweed for reproductive studies! The lifeboat coming past Calanus doing some checks. Inbetween doing fieldwork you can also still find...