1 July 2011, by Melanie Gault-Ringold
We have come full circle in our sampling endeavours. If you remember we started the trip a day late due to an emergency tooth extraction, and we arrived home a […]
GP13 Cruise Blog
24 June 2011, by Melanie Gault-Ringold
We have finished sampling our leg of the Geotraces GP13 transect. There are still a few more experiments to complete and a few more surface samples to collect on the […]
20 June 2011, by Melanie Gault-Ringold
The weather is beautiful again, the swell has eased, and it is a great day to be at sea. We are currently at GT19, the last of the mega stations, […]
18 June 2011, by Melanie Gault-Ringold
Although the sun has been shining, the wind and swell have not been in our favor the past couple of days. Our original sampling schedule put a super or mega […]
15 June 2011, by Melanie Gault-Ringold
When we left you last we were on our way to GT4. Since then, we have sampled four more normal stations and we left the next mega station last night. […]
12 June 2011, by Melanie Gault-Ringold
We are well and truly underway in our sampling endeavors. The first cast of our official Geotraces transect was the trace metal rosette late Friday night at 32.5° S, 172° […]
9 June 2011, by Melanie Gault-Ringold
It is a rare occasion to have both the R/V Southern Surveyor and the R/V Tangaroa in port together, so we made the most of it. On the 5th of […]
2 June 2011, by Taryn Noble and Andrew Bowie
Voyage GEOTRACES GP13 is coming to an end! Today we finished our final station (32.5 oS, 174 oW) north-east of New Zealand, having only lost two stations out of 38 […]
30 May 2011, by Taryn Noble and Andrew Bowie
We have had an exciting past few days on-board the Research Vessel Southern Surveyor. On Saturday we crossed the international date-line (1800) where east meets west, and all of a […]