Li Ling – Mar 5: When we arrived at Maxwell Bay by King George Island yesterday, the weather was still quite calm. The sky was clear and the scenery was…
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Li Ling – Mar 4: A slight change in our course: instead of stopping at Palmer station for some deck operations and moving the hazard wastes off the ship, we…
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Li Ling – Mar 3: What do we do when there is (almost) no more science experiments happening on the ship? Well, yesterday and today Anna initiated the project of…
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Li Ling – Mar 2: Today is yet another busy day for people with samples to pack for shipping. Sharon and Tish from ARTEMIS packing the water samples they have…
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Li Ling – Mar 1: Today has been an interesting day indeed! In the morning, Michael from the THOR team received a surprise certificate from Rick (IT). The certificate is…
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Li Ling – Feb 28: Today after lunch we had a full science meeting, where a few of the PIs (principle investigators) presented the datasets that we collected during the…
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Li Ling – Feb 27: Most people are busy packing up today: packing the instruments back into their boxes, packing the samples they've taken during the cruise for shipping, preparing…
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Li Ling – Feb 25: When we entered the Amundsen Sea in the beginning of January, we transited in sea ice for a few days. During our departure from the…
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Li Ling – Feb 24: Today is the final day of science operations for this cruise (other than the TMC towfish to be deployed later and the continuous underway water…
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Li Ling – Feb 23: continued throughout the day. Oh, have I mentioned that the nights at far south has become tangibly dark? Despite the snowy weather, the seal tagging…
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