Feb 11: RAN Deployment at 1am
Li Ling – Feb 11: As our time at Dotson quickly comes to an end, we’ve been spacing RAN missions with quite short intervals and[…]
Feb 10: Orca!!!
Li Ling – Feb 10: I wish there is a wildlife alarm on the ship! Today while I was sleeping, a few orcas showed up!!![…]
Feb 10: Boaty – lost and found
Li Ling – Feb 10: Boaty McBoatface (the name of the Autosub Long-Range, the British AUV onboard) has caused some real ups and downs on[…]
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,[…]