In March of 2009 we sailed from Seattle to Glacier Bay on the R/V Thomas G. Thompson. This cruise was the field research segment of the Oceanogprahy 443/444 courses. I was one two “physical oceanography” students on board. I used the underway ADCP data to study the currents in Glacier Bay. It was a student cruise, we had a lot of fun, the food was great, some science happened.
We “sailed” from Punta Arenas Chile, to the fueling pier, aboard the RRS James Cook in December of 2010. The plan was, Leave Punta Arenas, head to a mooring cluster southeast of Cabo De Hornos, then proceed west for tracer sampling and microstrucutre profiles. Well, things change. We were delayed over a week in leaving port (or, the fueling station) due to high winds in the Straits of Magellan. Once at sea we had a series of mechanical troubles which forced us back to Punta Arenas for a few more days. We made use of this unexpected vacation to take a road trip to Pali Aike National Park, on the border between Chile and Argentina. In the last few weeks we managed to take a few samples, drink a bunch of beers (they have beer), and celebrate Christmas and New Year. I also deployed two EM-APEX floats for Dr. Alberto Naviera-Garabato, but not the ones from APL, they were lost in shipping.
In August 2009 a few APL scientists, students, and engineers sailed on the R/V Roger Revelle from Keelung, Taiwan to study submarine canyons at the East China Sea shelf. We deployed EM-APEX floats, recovered a mooring, and conducted HDSS and ADCP transects over the shelf break. The weather was very calm and very warm, a big change for me! The PRC Navy wasn’t into what we were doing, and shadowed us with a destroyer, occasional fighter plane flyovers too! Haha PRC, other sovereign states also claim that little piece of the ocean; and they gave us permission.
In August 2011 four DIMES participants sailed on board the Antarctic Research and Supply Vessel Laurence M. Gould (ARSV LMG) to sample for the DIMES tracer across the Drake Passage. We DIMES people were not the only passengers aboard, joining us were a diverse crowd of biologists, geologist, fire marshall, painter, cook, and a handyman; all enroute to work at Palmer Station. We sailed from Punta Arenas through the eastern Straits of Magellan and south to Antarctica. We encountered sea ice near 59°S, which slowed our progress. We spent six full days at Palmer Station. On the way back we sampled tracer, which was interrupted by a storm (and my accompanying seasickness). What an adventure!
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