Feb 7: Third time lucky
Li Ling – Feb 7: How many trials are needed for a sensible ice draft map under western Dotson Ice Shelf? Turns out: at least[…]
Feb 3: CTD along bear peninsula and emperor penguins!!!
Li Ling – Feb 3: After the seal tagging attempt, the ship followed the eastern side of the Bear Peninsula along a channel packed with[…]
Feb 2: Successful RAN mission with 12 filled water samples!
Li Ling – Feb 2: The glider team tried to deploy a glider during the night, but unfortunately that did not work out, as the[…]
Feb 2: Bear Peninsula and first seal tagging attempt!!!
Li Ling – Feb 2: After RAN recovery, the ship headed east to the Bear Peninsula. When transiting down to the Amundsen Sea Polynya at[…]
Feb 1: Yet another beautiful day at Dotson
Li Ling – Feb 1: RAN got out in the afternoon for a 22h under-ice mission, with recovery time around lunch tomorrow. Fingers crossed for[…]
Jan 31: RAN came back from first closed-to-ice mission!
Li Ling – Jan 31: I stayed up until the RAN recovery time 11.30 this morning, since I was also a bit nervous for RAN…[…]
Jan 30-31: Getting sediments from the Antarctic seafloor
Li Ling – Jan 30-31: I stayed up to monitor the Hugin computers during the night between the 30th and 31st January. During the night,[…]
Jan 30: First RAN mission with upward looking multibeam and water samplers!
Li Ling – Jan 30: We deployed RAN yesterday for yet another challenging mission! This time the mission took place under the western part of[…]
Jan 30: Snow
Li Ling – Jan 30: After one day of snow, two giant snowman decided to give NBP a visit 🙂 Love0 Share Tweet Share
Jan 29: Water sampler testing
Li Ling – Jan 29: RAN has an external water sampling system that we can plug in to the vehicle to collect water samples from[…]