RRS Ernest Shackleton: Antarctica 2011-12
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Science, stories and images from Antarctica
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Preparations are now well underway for next year's field seasons, both for the ocean forcing and icesheet response components of iSTAR. On the ocean side, mooring components have been bought...
The Shackleton has been through quite a lot since you last heard from us down south. We departed Stanley in April and headed North for warmer climes. We had an...
The first science cruise of the ocean forcing component of iSTAR took place on RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer, an American ice-going research vessel, in collaboration with Prof. Stan Jacobs, Lamont-Doherty...
The James Clark Ross entered Portsmouth Naval Base on Wednesday 1st June to start the annual refit period. [caption id="attachment_118" align="alignnone" width="430" caption="The JCR in refit"][/caption] The James Clark Ross...
For the past few days we have been steaming through the Weddell Sea, stopping every now and then to do more science. Yesterday was a day of coring using the...
More coming soon!