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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,...