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That’s a wrap for data acquisition!

We have been working in the Porcupine Seabight (hence the PO of PORO-CLIM) for the past week (with a brief stay in Bantry Bay) and have...

Chasing storms (Or being chased!)

Storms come with the territory of working in the North Atlantic. As safety is a top priority on board, we always have to be adaptive to...

Documenting Life at Sea 2: the Power of Words

The previous installment of this blog post series about documenting life at sea was mostly about capturing pictures, but there is more to...

Mission Control: An insight into the Dry Lab

The Dry Lab aboard the RV Celtic Explorer is the heart of the scientific operations for the PORO-CLIM Expedition. It’s where we monitor...

Documenting Life at Sea

Outreach is an important feature of the PORO-CLIM Expedition. Along with our blog and social media accounts we have been recording life...

Catch me if you can: OBS retrieval

We have had a very bust past 48 hours. We have been retrieving all our OBS instruments from the seabed. Lookout from the bridge, can you...

I'm a Scientist on a boat, ask me anything: Q&A 1

We have been asked some excellent questions from some curious school children about our Expedition. These questions came from students...

Good Vibrations: a closer look at the Ocean Bottom Seismometer (OBS)

An OBS is a high-tech instrument that is used to measure what is going on under our feet from metres to kilometres beneath the seafloor....

CTD logging

We deployed the first of our instruments yesterday, a CTD cast, on the way towards our research area. CTD stands for Conductivity,...

Having a whale of a time

We are now on our way to our research area and have begun to deploy the instruments. Over the past two days there has been a consistent...

Meet the Crew: Early Career Scientists

Our onboard Science Party comprises of scientists and engineers from Irish, Danish & British universities and institutes covering a range...

Setting Sail

After a two day delay in Galway port we have finally departed! At 3 o'clock this afternoon the Galway Port pilot came aboard and guided...

Mobilisation is under way

All the crew have arrived in Galway and had their negative COVID-19 PCR test. The Scientific Crew on the gangway of the RV Celtic...

Equipment Shipped! One week to go...

Yesterday, 7 shipping containers left Aarhus University in Denmark. They're packed full of the geophysical equipment we need for the...

The countdown is on! 2 weeks to go!

2 weeks to go... Today marks two weeks until we set sail on the RV Celtic Explorer. Let the countdown begin! Our onboard science party...

T-Minus 3 Weeks

Today we had the first public outreach meeting. A team of 5 PhD and Post Doctoral researchers will be handling the public outreach,...