Welcome to the NBP22-11 SOCCOM Expedition!

Introducing Josie Adams and Ben Freiberger, who will be blogging for the expedition

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08 November 2022

Meet the two SOCCOM scientists, Josie Adams (U. Washington undergraduate and Argo lab employee) and Ben Freiberger (Scripps Institution of Oceanography technician), who are on the NBP22-11 transit cruise. They will lead the float deployments, and take the water samples that will be shipped back to the US for analysis in labs at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and NASA.

Josie Adams

My name is Josie Adams and I’m a third year undergraduate at the University of Washington School of Oceanography. I work as a lab tech at the UW Argo Float Lab and have been building, testing, and shipping Argo and SOCCOM/Go-BGC floats for 1.5 years. On the Nathaniel B. Palmer, I will be assisting with Argo float deployments and taking water samples at each float deployment site!

Ben Freiberger

My name is Ben Freiberger and I am a Staff Research Associate at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, CA. I graduated from Humboldt State University in 2020 with bachelor’s degrees in oceanography and chemistry and since then have worked for Dr. Todd Martz at SIO, focusing mainly on SeapHOx sensor package development and servicing. On this cruise I will be involved in float deployment as well as sampling the validation casts. I am excited to visit Punta Arenas, Palmer Station, and Lyttleton, all places I have not been before, as well as to get underway on the R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer and begin deploying floats!
The U.S. Antarctic Program's two research vessels dock at the Prat Pier, Punta Arenas, Chile. At left is the Nathaniel B. Palmer. At right is the Laurence M. Gould. The red and white ship in between the two U.S. vessels is a Chilean research vessel. Punta Arenas is the point of departure for the majority of U.S. research in the Antarctic Peninsula area.

The U.S. Antarctic Program’s two research vessels dock at the Prat Pier, Punta Arenas, Chile in 2014. At left is the Nathaniel B. Palmer. At right is the Laurence M. Gould. The red and white ship in between the two U.S. vessels is a Chilean research vessel. Punta Arenas is the point of departure for the majority of U.S. research in the Antarctic Peninsula area. Photo by Elaine Hood, USAP.