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[…]
Jan 28: RAN recovery
Li Ling – Jan 28: RAN recovery at ~23:00 tonight! Since I’ve been taking night shifts when RAN is out at sea, I’ve actually missed[…]
Jan 26: 24h CTDs and first penguin spotted outside Dotson Ice Shelf!!!
Li Ling – Jan 26: Today we stayed outside the outflow of circumpolar deep water (CDW) on the western side of Dotson Ice Shelf doing…[…]
Jan 24: A friend!!!
Today right after lunch we saw a friend!!! Araon, the South Korean ice breaker research vessel appeared to the starboard side of us, super close[…]
Jan 21: A sunny day outside Dotson Ice Shelf
The past two days have been super beautiful, with the sun shinning throughout the entire day! Unfortunately there aren’t many penguins or seals in this[…]
Jan 20: RAN data and more glider and ALR deployments
Li Ling – Jan 20: First real mission with RAN!!! Exciting!!! The mission is ~19h long outside the Dotson Ice Shelf. Due to global logistic[…]
Jan 18: RAN reparation
Li Ling – Jan 18: RAN reparation today! After the test mission last Saturday, Anders and Mark noticed that the downward looking multibeam on RAN[…]
Jan 17: Glider recovery and ALR test mission!
Li Ling – Jan 17: It’s a bit hard to tell the exact schedule on the ship… Most probably because it is the first[…]