RUCOLD !?

Hi All ru26 The Bear is in the Igloo! The Glider was pick up this morning, in the middle of a large patch of ice but the recover all went well and it is now sat out side the boat shed awaiting collection. Cheers Tim (boatman) ru26d was recovered early in the morning, Saturday 1/21/2012 Read More ...

Avoiding ice, sea mounts, and uncertain conditions ru26d was sent onward to try and navigate all the way up to Rothera Station’s front door.  Luckily the winds did away with the ice.  However, ice still covered a deep route into Marguerite Bay, so we had to go the shallow route.  This happens to be the Read More ...

ru26d (our deep glider outfitted with CTD, an oxygen sensor, and Fluorescence + Backcatter) was loitering outside the entrance to Marguerite Bay for almost 1.5 weeks.  We were waiting for the ice to clear enough to fly the glider all the way to the British Antarctic Survey’s base, Rothera Research Station.  For most of the Read More ...

Folks seem to like penguins….so much so that we even made the front page of the University of Delaware website! Hurray! This shot is of the Adelie penguin colony on Humble Island. We had just deployed a satellite transmitter on one of the birds so we would know where to send the underwater robots (Gliders Read More ...

Our streak of excellent weather has officially come to an end with a large low pressure system in the Drake Passage. The weather was even tough tough for the ever-working “birders” who were going to deploy a few satellite tags on penguins today. REMUS missions are cancelled for the day. That might be good since Read More ...

Is it possible to follow penguins from space to understand where and how they are feeding in Antarctica? Absolutely!..but not without an excellent team from University of Delaware, Rutgers University, Polar Oceans Research Group, and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. The sequence starts with the “Birders”. The “Birders” are from Polar Ocean Research and they have Read More ...

Hello again, First off, the National Geographic cruise ship, the Explorer, was amazing.  The vessel carried 140 tourists that came in waves onto Palmer Station raiding our gift shop and devouring the brownies Diane and Beaver left out for them.  We moved around some tables and made a little show room in our dining area Read More ...

Kaycee laid out  in the last post some conditions we have been struggling to sample in, and this time I would like to take that one step further and really introduce our science equipment and what we plan on doing down here this season.  Please feel free to comment with any questions on this post Read More ...