Donna ordered me back to the boat! Who is Donna, you ask? Donna is one of the ‘Birders’ at Palmer Station, where I waited for ten days for the rest of our crew toContinue reading
Author: Doug Nowacek
Doug is Repass-Rodgers University Associate Professor of Conservation Technology at the Duke Marine Lab
Back in Beaufort
Another great cruise, happy to be home Well, I guess we did it again…we collected an unbelievable data set, we saw lots of things that few people get to see, and we had a blastContinue reading
Argentinean Shelf (Sat., 5/8/10) – Over the shelf and into the Drake
We woke to a beautiful day on the Argentinean shelf, having dropped the pilot last evening and then completing our journey through the Straits of Magellan. View from the ship We spent the day travelingContinue reading
The Long Trip Home
After an amazingly successful cruise, thoughts turned to homes, friends and families – though we had many miles to travel to get to them. We left Palmer Station at 1000 on the 7th ofContinue reading
Doug Nowacek
Antarctica - 2009, conservation, faculty, marine studies, students, travel, Video Posts
Antarctica - 2009, conservation, faculty, marine studies, students, travel, Video Posts
Palmer (Sun., 5/24/09) – An Icy Night becomes a SNOW DAY!!
Time to explore a new area – so we pushed on to Charlotte Bay, just to the northeast of where we’d been working. Turns out Charlotte was pretty full of ice as well as whales…Continue reading
Nansen Island (Mon., 5/4/09) – Stage 8 of Radio Tracking
After two days of intense searching we managed to relocate and recover our wayward tag just before dusk this afternoon. For most of last night and all of this morning we were convinced that theContinue reading
Palmer Station (Tues., 4/28/09) – Preparation and Anticipation
Busy making final preparations for our first day of full operations During another windy day at Palmer, we completed final testing of field equipment, e.g., tags and echosounder gear. Though the winds prevented us fromContinue reading