And that’s it! Yesterday, the DIAPOD team departed the ship with a little sadness to be leaving. We’ve all worked very hard and the cruise …
The strange things that ship folk get up to…
Life at sea always brings together a great gaggle of people, working hard day and night to find out the answers to some interesting science …
Spotted!
The JCR has been slowly moving around the ice. We finally have seen out first polar bear! Photo taken by Anna Belcher
From MOCFEST to MAMATHON: a marathon mission under the midnight sun
Sometimes the best ideas are also the craziest. I’ve just learned that in science, it’s no different. To achieve a powerful dataset, which will ultimately …
Cold room calamities
Some of the DIAPOD team have been banished to the cold lab, an old walk-in fridge turned scientific laboratory. By banished, I mean we voluntarily …
Sun and Ice
We have been busy inside the ships labs and cold room. It is easy to forget that we are in the Arctic! The ice has …
Guided by locals
It seems as though we are being guided north by some of the Arctic’s residents! There are fulmars which look similar to gulls but have …
Managing the Changing Arctic Ocean data
With the test station coming up later today, science is soon to begin. With this comes data, so data manager Joana Beja tells us what …
We’re off!
Since the team gathered in Aberdeen it’s been a busy few days mobilising the James Clark Ross in preparation for our cruise. Many many many …
Dawn of the Copepod CHASERS
Dr Kim Last who is a co-investigator on the DIAPOD project and is the Pricipal Investigator on the CAO CHASE project has teamed up with …