King Edward Point Diary – May 2012
Compared to recent months, May was a relatively quiet month and saw us eventually whittled down to our wintering team. The month kicked off with an oil spill response exercise, […]
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Rothera Diary — May 2012
Read more of: Rothera Diary — May 2012With the Ernest Shackleton long departed and the daylight disappearing rapidly, the 18-strong team remaining at Rothera really started to experience the proper Antarctic winter. On the 18th of May […]
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Northbound
Read more of: NorthboundTHe RRS Ernest Shackleton departed Stanley on the 29th April heading north for the UK, after a very busy and successful Antarctic season. The trip north was pretty uneventful and […]
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King Edward Point Diary – April 2012
Read more of: King Edward Point Diary – April 2012April at KEP is usually the point that summer starts to wind down and winter begins; numbers on station drop and the makeup of shipping changes from Tourism to Fishing. […]
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Rothera Diary — April 2012
Read more of: Rothera Diary — April 2012In one hour it will be time to switch on the high frequency radio and report back to base, let them know we’re safe & well, our location, our intentions […]
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Mooring – 3rd April 2012
Read more of: Mooring – 3rd April 2012The JCR left the Falkland Islands at the end of March for the final Antarctic science cruise of the season, this time with oceanographers and geologists.
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Week 5: wrapping up and travelling home – March 21st, 2012
Read more of: Week 5: wrapping up and travelling home – March 21st, 2012Jen Jackson, BAS This week we bios have all been busy wrapping up our science work for this cruise: Adam (link: meet a scientist) is finally completing his bivalve experiments […]
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King Edward Point Diary – March 2012
Read more of: King Edward Point Diary – March 2012Most significantly this month, we have been joined by two new team members. Paula O’Sullivan and Jo Cox are both familiar faces to BAS; Paula having worked as a boating […]
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Rothera Diary — March 2012
Read more of: Rothera Diary — March 2012Early March saw the departure of the last BAS planes for the season. This left 42 people on station to carry on the science, various works and to commence winterising […]
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Ocean Chemistry on the JCR – March 21st 2012
Read more of: Ocean Chemistry on the JCR – March 21st 2012Douglas Hamilton, University of East Anglia Water chemistry is employed during cruises to look for various things of interest to Oceanographers like temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen and chlorophyll. Temperature and […]
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James Clark Ross diary – March 15th 2012
Read more of: James Clark Ross diary – March 15th 2012Melanie Mackenzie – Museum Victoria Now that we’ve finished collecting specimens, the EVOLHIST biology team on board the James Clark Ross is busily working away in the ship’s labs. Dr […]
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Week 4: Monday 27th February to Sunday 4th March: Completing our biological sampling in the eastern Weddell sea
Read more of: Week 4: Monday 27th February to Sunday 4th March: Completing our biological sampling in the eastern Weddell seaRachel Downey (British Antarctic Survey) We have been working in some amazingly calm waters for the last two weeks, and are now breaking through the sea ice again as we […]