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Posted: 30 June 2011
This morning we reached the most easterly point of the cruise, and carried out a CTD sampling station in the Skaggerak, nestled between Denmark, Norway, and Sweden (red dot on map).
For the... |
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Posted: 30 June 2011
Today we continued our sampling of the aftermath of a very large coccolithophore bloom. We carried out another transect across the bright waters (see photo), approaching fairly close to Norway at... |
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Posted: 29 June 2011
Ever since the first week of the cruise, we have been intrigued by satellite images showing a large and intense coccolithophore bloom in the northern North Sea.
Coccolithophores (see electron... |
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Posted: 28 June 2011
It is now three weeks since we left port, with another two still to go until we set foot on dry land again. Soft fruit has of course long since run out but we are still plentifully supplied with... |
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Posted: 27 June 2011
Why is marine wildlife monitoring important? by Alice Jones
The talk will cover the SeaWatch-SW marine wildlife survey and how the four years of effort-based observation data are being put to... |
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Posted: 27 June 2011
Yesterday evening we passed between Dover and Calais and entered the North Sea. At one point we travelled quite close to a giant wind farm installed far out at sea, faintly and eerily visible... |
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Posted: 27 June 2011
We had a slight delay yesterday evening. Near Lulworth Cove on the Dorset coast a scuba diver didn’t return to the surface with his dive companion. He couldn’t be found and was reported missing... |
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Posted: 24 June 2011
We are currently carrying out a CTD station in view of the limestone promontory of Portland Bill, with Dorset’s ‘Jurassic Coast’ spread out in front of us.
Today’s blog entry, again by Dave... |
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Posted: 24 June 2011
Luminaries from NOC and its predecessors received prestigious awards in Paris this week from the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC), which is celebrating its half-century this year... |
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Posted: 24 June 2011
Filtering for elemental composition (C:N:P)
After a couple of days steaming northeastwards from the open Atlantic we are now close to UK shores again, just south of Devon in the UK. As I write... |
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Posted: 23 June 2011
Unfortunately no repeat of the wildlife spectacular during this morning’s CTD station. We are now headed northeast towards the western tip of Brittany in France.
Today’s blog entry is written... |
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Posted: 23 June 2011
Where Atlantic salmon feed in the ocean has been a long-standing mystery, but new research led by the University of Southampton shows that marine location can be recovered from the chemistry of... |