by Jennifer Magnusson | Apr 16, 2025 | South Atlantic 2025
Deployment Day! Even with nearly a week at sea and two float deployments down, the novelty of this experience still hasn’t quite worn off. ; Three days ago, we left the bad weather behind us, and I got to decorate the adopted BGC floats. Three of the other...
by Jennifer Magnusson | Mar 24, 2025 | Indian 2025
Fremantle and Beyond Due to a slight delay, Melissa Miller and some of the other scientists had a chance to explore Fremantle and the surrounding area ; Underway at last! After a slight delay, I09N is underway! All lab gear is onboard and secured for sea and the...
by Jennifer Magnusson | Feb 7, 2025 | Indian 2025
Pre-cruise Decorating Melissa Miller had a chance to decorate the floats for this expedition before they were loaded for shipment. ; Welcome to the I09N cruise blog! So many things will be happening on this cruise and GO-BGC floats are only a small part of that....
by Jennifer Magnusson | Nov 25, 2024 | Lindblad 2024
Big News Thingamajig Makes an Unbelievable Comeback! ; Big News: Thingamajig Makes an Unbelievable Comeback! Remember Float #22365, nicknamed Thingamajig, deployed just before our brief stop in Tahiti (see the blog post here)? Initially declared non-operational due to...
by Jennifer Magnusson | Oct 30, 2024 | Lindblad 2024
Cyance Our last float, Cyance, was deployed around 41° S, 80° W. ; October 25, 2024 These last couple of days have been very busy. The last float deployments were very close to each other and somehow, I didn’t sleep much. Today, October 25, marked the last of the...
