Li Ling – Jan 30: We deployed RAN yesterday for yet another challenging mission! This time the mission took place under the western part of the Dotson Ice Shelf. Compared…
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Li Ling – Jan 30: After one day of snow, two giant snowman decided to give NBP a visit :) The philosopher snowman at the bow The snow ceased…
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Li Ling – Jan 29: RAN has an external water sampling system that we can plug in to the vehicle to collect water samples from places that she goes to,…
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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 the last two recoveries and…
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Li Ling – Jan 26: Today we stayed outside the outflow of circumpolar deep water (CDW) on the western side of Dotson Ice Shelf doing... 24h of CTDs, nicknamed CTD…
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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 to the Dotson Ice Shelf!…
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A part of the Dotson Ice Shelf under sunlight The past two days have been super beautiful, with the sun shinning throughout the entire day! Unfortunately there aren't many penguins…
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Li Ling – Jan 20: First real mission with RAN!!! Exciting!!! The mission is ~19h long outside the Dotson Ice Shelf. Due to global logistic issues, many of the things…
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Li Ling – Jan 18: RAN reparation today! After the test mission last Saturday, Anders and Mark noticed that the downward looking multibeam on RAN was... Hmm... Not entirely attached…
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Li Ling – Jan 17: It's a bit hard to tell the exact schedule on the ship... Most probably because it is the first time that there are so…
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