Guest Work • Mar 08, 2013 •
Written by NIWA oceanographer and voyage leader Dr Mike Williams. Date: 7/3/2013 Location: 58.600213°S, 158.239401°E Weather: Cloudy, rain, 20-30 knots wind Sea state: 2-3 m swell Both on our transit to Antarctica, and on our way home, we have repeated lines of CTD stations know as sections. On our way south we occupied the southern part … Read More
Guest Work • Mar 05, 2013 •
Written by NIWA oceanographer and voyage leader Dr Mike Williams. Date: 4/03/2013 Location: 63.394131°S, 149.553421°E Weather: Cloudy, snow and rain, 25 knots of wind Sea state: 3-4 m swell CTD about to be deployed. [Jill Scott]With 10 days left of the voyage we are now heading north, starting to make our way back to Wellington. As … Read More
Guest Work • Feb 05, 2013 •
Dr Helen Bostock, marine geologist at NIWA, writes Date: 4/2/2013 Position: 45.66345˚S, 171.2626˚E Weather: Cloudy and raining Sea state: Calm While we are transiting to our first station over the next few days, I will introduce the members of the science teams and the main instruments they will be using during the voyage. Read More