Time on Board

Time on Board

by | Aug 23, 2023 | Indian 2023

GO-SHIP IO5: Time Aboard the Roger Revelle Time’s passage is different aboard a research cruise ; I05 Log: Time Aboard the Roger Revelle  One of the fundamentals of special relativity is (in simplest terms) that time passes differently as an object’s velocity...
Sound Studies

Sound Studies

by | Aug 23, 2023 | Indian 2023

GO-SHIP IO5: Studying the Ocean with Sound Measuring ocean currents with sound using the Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) ; I05 Log: Studying the Ocean with Sound The Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler, or ADCP, is an instrument that uses sound to measure the...
Eating Well

Eating Well

by | Aug 9, 2023 | Indian 2023

GO-SHIP IO5: Eating Well Yummy eats aboard the R/V Roger Revelle ; CTD Watch-standers Log: Eating Well As we enter the third week of our voyage across the Indian Ocean, I’d like to share the yummy eats aboard the R/V Roger Revelle. Amidst the dedicated efforts of the...
CTD Casting

CTD Casting

by | Aug 8, 2023 | Indian 2023

GO-SHIP IO5: CTD Casting Describing one cycle of CTD casting ; CTD Watch-standers Log: CTD Casting In one cycle of CTD casting, we start with a process called “cocking” where we need to manually pull out the top and bottom caps of the Niskin bottles (Rosette bottles)...
I05 Week 2

I05 Week 2

by | Aug 8, 2023 | Indian 2023

CTD Watch-standers Log: GO-SHIP I05 Week 2 Sampling and life at sea in rougher weather ; Us: “Deck, lab. Ready to power on the Log.” “Lab, Deck. You may power on the Log.” Us: “Lab, copy.” On our 11th day aboard the R/V Roger Revelle we started our first day of what...