Today brought us into contact with our first killer whales (Orcinus orca) of the trip. Ari spotted them traveling northeast along the Gerlache, and thanks to a little luck, he soon had some amazing picturesContinue reading
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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
Errera Channel (Wed., 5/6/09) – Leopard Seals
Sometimes days don’t go quite as planned, but opportunities do arise. We started the day with a stiff breeze (>40knts) so we were not able to splash the small boats first thing as we hadContinue 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
At Sea (Sun., 5/3/09) – White Noise
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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
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
Palmer Station (Fri., 4/24/09) – We have arrived!
We arrived at Palmer Station… An especially long awaited arrival for me. Early this morning as the ship slowed we emerged on to deck to watch the dawn creep over the Antarctic Peninsula. The glaciersContinue reading