Guest Author • Mar 12, 2021 •
Alysha Johnson Before I headed out to sea, I did not know a lot about the ocean to begin with. A geologist and geomorphologist by training, I have always looked at the land and had never spent longer in a ship than the 3-hour Wellington to Picton ferry crossing. But it hasn’t taken me long to realise that compared to … Read More
Guest Author • Feb 16, 2021 •
Alysha Johnson They say a good day is a busy day, and aboard the R/V Falkor (Seafloor to Seabirds in the Coral Sea – Schmidt Ocean Institute), almost every day is busy! On this particular day, we deployed a CTD, which stands for Conductivity, Temperature and Density. It is a device lowered to the ocean floor to provide … Read More
Guest Author • Aug 06, 2018 •
Jan Jansen, University of Tasmania; Craig Johnson, University of Tasmania, and Nicole Hill, University of Tasmania What sort of life do you associate with Antarctica? Penguins? Seals? Whales? Actually, life in Antarctic waters is much broader than this, and surprisingly diverse. Hidden under the cover of sea-ice for most of the year, and … Read More
Guest Author • Jul 17, 2018 •
Adele Morrison, Australian National University; Andy Hogg, Australian National University; Ceridwen Fraser, Australian National University, and Erik van Sebille, Utrecht University Two small pieces of seaweed found by a Chilean scientist on an Antarctic beach set in train research that may transform our understanding of ocean drift and reveal what the future … Read More
Guest Author • 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 Author • 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 Author • 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