Thanks to Mr. Wynar’s sixth-grade science class at St. Elizabeth’s School in Denver, Colorado for sending us some questions! Mr. Wynar’s class adopted the SOCCOM float “Hawk-eye,” which we deployed on Tuesday morning. (Hawk-eye is named for the pair of
Over the weekend, we got to try out one of my favorite science demonstrations — the incredible shrinking styrofoam cups, a mainstay of sea-going oceanography. It’s a pretty amazing way to visualize the pressure that the ocean exerts at depth. It
Yesterday — 30 days after most of us left our homes — we reached 30 °S and our science operations finally began. A lot of our science uses a piece of equipment known as a CTD, which is sort of the oceanographer’s
If you’ve ever stared out at the ocean on a stormy day, you can see how the dark skies make the ocean appear grayer than it would on a clear afternoon. Part of the color of the ocean is determined
Ten days into our voyage and we’ve still got a few left before we can begin our science operations. Because the pandemic derailed our expedition’s original plans, we’ve ended up having a much longer transit than we would typically have
Throughout the golden age of sea exploration, seafarers always managed to find a way to mark the big occasions with celebrations that brought a little bit of home on board. For many of us on the Revelle (as for so
By Giuliana Viglione After what seems like an endless pre-expedition quarantine, we have finally made it on board the R/V Roger Revelle, the ship that we will call home for the next 60+ days. While we aren’t setting sail until
By Emily Cyr Humans use lots of fertilizers in order to stimulate agricultural growth, but a lot of these fertilizers make their way into rivers, streams, and eventually to the ocean, where they pollute the environment with excess nitrogen. This
By Zaie Nursey This fall, I have had the opportunity to work in Senior Research Scientist Doug Rasher’s lab on developing a qPCR assay to detect green sea urchins in the water. The Gulf of Maine is a rich fishing
By Michael Staiger This fall, I worked with Research Scientist Nicole Poulton to investigate how the species of phytoplankton in water is changing. What are phytoplankton? In the ocean, phytoplankton are made up of lots of different tiny organisms that