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.
2013
When you walk down the Pelagia hallway at 2 o‘clock in the morning, things are quiet. Lights in the floors are constantly burning and in some labs there seem to be some brave souls, wandering around, analyzing some samples, or checking if their machines are still working.
Today we (at least some of us) start early, 5:30 local time. We want to place a lander right above the seep. The lander contains two Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCPs) and a microcat.
Much has happened in the past 48 hours since our arrival at our study site, a methane seep site in the North Sea near the gas production platform B13.
After 24h full-time boating to the desired location and thus a full day of 'inslingeren', fortunately everyone was feeling better and on their marks for the start of the joint sampling effort.
11 August we will arrive in Lisbon and the scientists on board and part of the crew will go home. As a last blog we want to show you some pictures of daily life and some highlights during our third Mediterranean-Black Sea GEOTRACES cruise.
Second Italian blog! :)
Imagine that you could pick an O2 molecule, and just like you would do with a product on a supermarket shelf, turn it around and find a small label with the manufacturer’s details on its back. In the case of a dissolved O2 molecule sampled at sea, there would be two options: either this molecule was locally produced by photosynthetic organisms, or it was “imported” into the seawater from the atmosphere.08/08/2013 15:26
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.
08/08/2013 15:26
This MedBlack GEOTRACES cruise led by the Dutch on-board RV Pelagia is a unique opportunity to ‘chemically’ map the Mediterranean and the Black Seas. With its three legs it has a very high sampling resolution and thanks to the amazing Ultra Clean CTD sampling device built in NIOZ, an impressive number of parameters will be measured on macro & micro nutrients and other trace metals.
De machinekamer
After begging, kneeling and the promise of some beers, the bridge team decided to write a blog for the Nioz website…..! We would like to introduce ourselves: Pieter (Captain), Bert (1st Mate) and Alle (2nd Mate), all dutchies!!