Stay tuned as we bring you updates from our new Antarctic research project! We’re currently in Punta Arenas, Chile, waiting for passage across the Drake Passage to the Antarctic Peninsula, where we will be studyingContinue reading
Author: Andy Read
Gerlache Strait (Tues., 6/1/10) – Chasing Phantoms
If you’ve been following our blog regularly (you have been following the blog, haven’t you?), by now you are familiar with our daily routine. Get up, make coffee, have breakfast, launch the small boats, putContinue reading
Wilhelmina Bay, (Fri., 5/20/10) – Gradients
Our primary scientific objective is to study interactions between humpback whales and their prey, krill. This is why we tag the whales and why we are interested in the physical and biological factors that influenceContinue reading
On the way to Andvord Bay (Sat., 5/15/10) – Graduation Day
We celebrate our graduate students’ big day Our Antarctic trip is a wonderful opportunity to conduct world-class research in one of the most amazing places on earth. But the trip also entails sacrifice, as weContinue reading
Puenta Arenas (Fri., 5/7/10) – Beginnings
Where the heck are those GPS cables, anyway? Most of us arrived in Punta Arenas yesterday, tired after a long journey to the bottom of the world from various points in the U.S. Despite multipleContinue reading
Wilhelmina Bay (Thurs., 5/28/09) – Nature Red in Tooth and Claw
Another tag on today in a bay full of whales and a spectacular sighting of a leopard seal eating a Gentoo penguin. sunrise As I write it is about 6:00 PM on Thursday night. It’sContinue reading
Palmer (Sun., 5/10/09) – Leg One Is In the Bag!
Our first leg of tagging was amazingly productive (and fun). Yesterday we concluded our first of three tagging legs with a return trip to Palmer Station. It was a remarkably successful first 10 days. WeContinue reading
Palmer station (Wed., 5/6/09) – Underwater Leopard Seal Video
Dave managed to take some spectacular underwater video of two leopard seals On May 6th, Dave used our underwater video camera to get some amazing footage of leopard seals swimming next to their Zodiac asContinue reading
Piccard Cove (Fri., 5/1/09) – A Cove of Whales and a Blizzard of Penguins
The home page on the ship’s intranet said that today was a good day to be a scientist a truer word was never spoken. The home page on the ship’s intranet said that today wasContinue reading
At Sea (Wed., 4/29/09) – Deadliest Catch: Out with the Icefish team
The visual survey team has been out fishing with our colleagues on the icefish research team for the last three days. On our first day, in transit to Dallman Bay, we had great conditions andContinue reading