Cups

Cups

GO-SHIP IO5: Cups Under Pressure One fun activity for deep CTD casts is to shrink styrofoam cups ; I05 Log: Cups Under Pressure One fun activity for deep CTD casts is to shrink styrofoam cups. The cups have air in them, which is forced out as the cups are taken to...
Free Time

Free Time

GO-SHIP IO5: Free time on a 55-day cruise Finding ways to occupy yourself on a long cruise ; I05 Log: Free time on a 55-day cruise Have you ever gone on a long flight or bus ride, so you download some movies or bring along some books? But of course, when you get on...
Bio GO-SHIP

Bio GO-SHIP

GO-SHIP IO5: Bio GO-SHIP Studying the variability in particulate organic matter (POM) with changing oceans due to climate change. ; I05 Log: Bio GO-SHIP The Bio GO-SHIP initiative sheds light on the variability in particulate organic matter (POM) with changing oceans...
Time on Board

Time on Board

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

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

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...