Cruise summary

Now that the research voyage is nearing its end, what has been achieved by the team of 24 scientists and engineers? We’re delighted by the quantity and quality of the observations and data sets that we’ve been able to obtain. We’ve been helped by the unusually small amounts of sea ice in Pine Island Bay… Read more »

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Pancakes all around!

We have been surrounded by pancakes for the past few days now – but of the ice variety rather than the culinary! Pancake ice is just one stage of many in the route that sea ice takes to form the more solid looking, snow topped ice floes that we’re more used to associating with sea… Read more »

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Seal tagging part 2

Written by Mike Fedak. After a long stretch of physical oceanographic work, on February 23rd, we got a suitable time window to once again try to catch seals and attach CTD-SRDLs. Our original plan was to tag roughly 8 elephant seals and 8 Weddell seals, but until the last few days we had only applied… Read more »

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Working in an extreme environment

Whilst we’ve been out of main internet contact, we have still been receiving daily news reports of what’s going on back at home – and the weather in the UK has been consistently making headline news. Although we don’t have constant rainfall (as Antarctica is the driest continent on Earth), we have had our fair… Read more »

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