by Jennifer Magnusson | Apr 29, 2025 | South Atlantic 2025
Watching the Waves Our third week at sea included two BGC Float deployments, water sampling, a game night, three PIES recoveries, and lots of time out in the sun. ; As we began the third week being out at sea, we began heading North along 10 W, a line of longitude....
by George Matsumoto | Apr 24, 2025 | Indian 2025
From Shouts to Signals: How Ocean Chemistry Comes Alive By GO-SHIP I09 tracer analyst Mary Kate (MK) Dinneen ; “10 ON 4, 10 ON 4!” That’s not a drill call—it’s a scientist calling out to the sample “cop,” making sure samples are collected from the right bottles on the...
by George Matsumoto | Apr 17, 2025 | Indian 2025
It's All Fun and Games We’re getting into our fourth week aboard the R/V Thompson; here’s a look at what we do off shift to keep ourselves sane. ; Monopoly Deal Most of the time, everyone gets along here. Not so during this game – we have vendettas....
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 George Matsumoto | Apr 11, 2025 | South Atlantic 2025
First day at sea! We have officially been at sea for a whole day. This blog has some information about what I have been up to. ; We have officially been at sea for a whole day! we left around 9:00 PM on April 9th, and for three days before that, I explored Montevideo,...
by George Matsumoto | Apr 11, 2025 | Indian 2025
First float deployments The first BGC-Argo floats have been deployed from the R/V Thompson I09N ; On April 5th and 9th, we deployed our first two BGC-Argo floats! Everything went very smoothly for Floater the Explorer and Sakai Coho 2, adopted by Mission High School...
