Cruise Diary
The cruise diary provides you with the latest news and stories from our colleagues on board RV Pelagia. The contributions may be either in Dutch or in English, depending on the author.
The cruise diary provides you with the latest news and stories from our colleagues on board RV Pelagia. The contributions may be either in Dutch or in English, depending on the author.
RV Pelagia left the harbor of Lisbon on 14 May for the first leg of the MedBlack GEOTRACES cruise program. The goal of this first leg is to measure the distribution of a large number of trace metals and exotic isotopes that are important for live in the oceans in the southern part of the Mediterranean Sea.
It's the last day of the last CHARLET cruise. Time to finish the last experiments and start packing and cleaning to leave the Pelagia in a good condition.
Today, the second of May 2013, the last CTD of the Charlet-4 cruise has been brought up from great depths to reveal its secrets to us.
Diatoms are single-celled but can form long chains, which has been shown to reduce the grazing pressure, although some grazers like the larger sized diatom structure that is the result of chain formation.
Queens day 2013! In between our daily scientific work on board of the Pelagia, we had time to watch the festivities and even celebrate a little. It was a beautiful day with all the nice images from Amsterdam.
Changed has also the weather. In the first 3 days the sea was so calm that one could think we haven’t even left the harbor yet. So, no more loss of water while pouring and thus no more filling of the container with seawater.
They say that necessecity is the mother of invention, I’d probably say back pain is a better motivator. As the CHARLET cruises progessed, so did my questions about the factors affecting the growth of phytoplankton along our transect.
De zonnebrillen worden uit het stof gehaald en de biologie wordt door een enkeling weer beoefend zoals het hoort, in korte broek met de zelfgemaakte geitenwollen sokken eronder.
Welcome onboard, this is the last CHARLET cruise in a set of four. What are we up to? If you would walk around the ship, and chat here and there, you would find out that there is one thing that binds us: phytoplankton.
The recovery of the mooring starts with rubber-boat assistance to attach lines to the release beacon and empty aluminium LOM.