Log Post: 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 ocean is increasing.
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Log Post: Chlorophyll is Key to the Biological Oceanographer
This week Pete and I started doing our experiments with water collected from the CTD profiles.
Log Post: 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.
Log Post: Two Ships Passing in the… TTIDE
Well, not just passing, but collaborating in a very unique way.
Log Post: 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 and into the ocean.
Log Post: Calibration Celebration
Good scientific data is wonderful, but data is not very useful if it isn’t accurate.
Log Post: CTD’s Away!
Our first day of sailing consisted of voyage preparation. This included tying everything down and expecting the worst sea conditions.
Log Post: Catching the Wave!
A very big part of this project depends on a piece of equipment called the ADCP (acoustic Doppler current profiler).
Log Post: Tidy Preparings – Getting Ready to Find Internal Tides
Research vessel Falkor is set to take off from Hobart, as one of the TTIDE cruises.
Log Post: 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 budget and climate.
