Why Study The Ocean
Check out the why the science party on the Tasman Sea cruise studies the Ocean.
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Judy Lemus
Back from the Tasman Sea
After 26 days at sea, the T-Beam crew has sailed back into port along the Derwent River, and tied up on land. We never expected...
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Luc Rainville
Using Nebula to Solve Nebulous Problems
Out here in the Tasman Sea, chasing the internal tide involves a lot of detective work, piecing together clues from water velocity, temperature, and density...
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Judy Lemus
Rollin’ in the Deep
This morning I was handed a small vial of water from the deepest reaches of the Tasman Sea (4800 meters deep, to be exact). So...
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Judy Lemus
Engineering a Career in Ocean Science
As you may have noticed, there is a lot of high-tech experimental equipment and instruments on an oceanographic research cruise. We are in an era...
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Judy Lemus
It’s Getting Hot in Here, Let’s Mix it Up!
Last week, the great dark turquoise waves rolling past the ship in the dark looked impressive, at 15 feet tall or more, but they are...
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Luc Rainville and Amy Waterhouse
A Steep Slope
The continental shelf of Tasmania is pretty steep. If you were on the bottom of the Tasman Sea, it would be like driving in a...
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Judy Lemus
Beginning a Research Career
For new comers to science, it is important that they begin their journey in some particular way. Some may embark on land based science or...
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Ridgway, K. & Hill, K. (2012).
The Climes They Are a Changin’
Having collected another set of data from our familiar C2 site, we are now steaming to a location a bit south of the A1 mooring. Once there...
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Judy Lemus
Falkor + Revelle: Collaborations on the Waves
The Tasman Sea is not happy. For the past couple of days, waves have been crashing over the bow, and sustained winds have routinely been...
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Judy Lemus
We’ve Got Data!
The moment that all field scientists crave has arrived – preliminary data! Team T-Beam ran two successful profiles and are hot on the trail of...
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Randall Lee
Looking into the Plastisphere
Whilst Falkor is rushing about chasing internal waves for next few weeks, this platform is also being modestly utilized to hunt down any microplastics that may cross...
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Judy Lemus
Taking the Ocean’s Temperature
If you’ve been paying any attention at all to the news in the last, say, two decades, you will know that the temperature of the...
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Judy Lemus
Chlorophyll is Key to the Biological Oceanographer
This week Pete and I started doing our experiments with water collected from the CTD profiles. We are using the water to conduct chlorophyll measurements,...
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Judy Lemus
Connecting Physics and Biology
The connection between physical processes in the ocean and the organisms that live in it can be summed up with one word: Nutrients. The movement...
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Judy Lemus
Two Ships Passing in the… TTIDE
Well, not just passing, but collaborating in a very unique way. By the time Falkor started steaming out of Hobart, the RV Revelle had been at sea for a...
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Judy Lemus
Working in an Unpredictable Sea
Yesterday found me standing on the aft deck of Falkor, gripping a rope to hold the swinging CTD rosette steady as we lowered it over the side...
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Judy Lemus
Calibration Celebration
Good scientific data is wonderful, but data is not very useful if it isn’t accurate. The tricky bit about using the ADCP on this cruise...
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Judy Lemus
CTD’s Away!
Our first day of sailing consisted of voyage preparation. This included tying everything down and expecting the worst sea conditions. Pete and I managed to...
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Judy Lemus
Catching the Wave!
A very big part of this project depends on a piece of equipment called the ADCP (acoustic Doppler current profiler). This is one of the...
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Judy Lemus
Tidy Preparings – Getting Ready to Find Internal Tides
Research vessel Falkor is set to take off from Hobart, as one of the TTIDE cruises. The science teams have been busily prepping instruments, eager to get underway....
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David Murline
Tracking the Tasman Sea’s Hidden Tide
Every day, the ocean’s tides create massive underwater waves known as internal tides that radiate around the globe with major impacts on the ocean’s heat...
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