Mar 5: Maxwell Bay, LMG and we are off for Chile!!!
Li Ling – Mar 5: When we arrived at Maxwell Bay by King George Island yesterday, the weather was still quite calm. The sky was[…]
Mar 4: King George Island!
Li Ling – Mar 4: A slight change in our course: instead of stopping at Palmer station for some deck operations and moving the hazard[…]
Mar 3: Making the Swedish semla!
Li Ling – Mar 3: What do we do when there is (almost) no more science experiments happening on the ship? Well, yesterday and today[…]
Mar 2: More packing up and a remote interview
Li Ling – Mar 2: Today is yet another busy day for people with samples to pack for shipping. From today and on, we’ve[…]
Mar 1: Marti Gras, King Neptune, whales and albatrosses
Li Ling – Mar 1: Today has been an interesting day indeed! In the morning, Michael from the THOR team received a surprise certificate from[…]
Feb 28: Science meeting, albatross and whale!
Li Ling – Feb 28: Today after lunch we had a full science meeting, where a few of the PIs (principle investigators) presented the datasets[…]
Feb 27: Packing up and blue petrels
Li Ling – Feb 27: Most people are busy packing up today: packing the instruments back into their boxes, packing the samples they’ve taken during[…]
Feb 25: Transit in sea ice
Li Ling – Feb 25: When we entered the Amundsen Sea in the beginning of January, we transited in sea ice for a few days.[…]
Feb 24: The last day of science
Li Ling – Feb 24: Today is the final day of science operations for this cruise (other than the TMC towfish to be deployed later[…]
Feb 23: A very snowy day
Li Ling – Feb 23: continued throughout the day. Oh, have I mentioned that the nights at far south has become tangibly dark? Despite the[…]