CTD cast near an iceberg just east of Dotson Ice Shelf.

First iSTAR oceanographic moorings deployed

The first science cruise of the ocean investigations of iSTAR took place on RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer, an American ice-going research vessel, in collaboration with Prof. Stan Jacobs, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University. On cruise NBP10-05, from late November 2010 to mid-January 2011, we attempted to recover and subsequently redeploy some of the existing moorings… Read more »

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