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 […]
30.05.2011
Cruise Blogs
26 May 2011, by Taryn Noble and Andrew Bowie
We are currently steaming across the South Fiji Basin situated at 30o 30‘S having finished sampling all the stations along the 30oS line of latitude. The topography of the surrounding seafloor […]
26.05.2011
23 May 2011, by Taryn Noble and Andrew Bowie
We are currently situated about 50 miles south of Norfolk Island in the Tasman Sea northwest of New Zealand. Unfortunately there is time to stop there, although there have been […]
24.05.2011
19 May 2011, by Taryn Noble and Andrew Bowie
We are now well under way on the GEOTRACES GP13 transect having completed five normal stations and both a mega and a super station. Overall we have successfully carried out […]
19.05.2011
15 May 2011, by Taryn Noble and Andrew Bowie
On the Friday the 13th, we left the Port of Brisbane on the Southern Surveyor around 16:30. The Port of Brisbane, situated about 30 km outside the city, is enormous […]
14.05.2011