Hi all,
Things are busy on the Nathaniel B. Palmer! We are sampling the phytoplankton in the ice and the water column to quantify and characterize them (we kill them and take them home to analyze!). Several people are doing different experiments with the phytoplankton (we torture them with different environmental stresses and then we kill them!). Things are going pretty well and it is very scenic! Last night we came very close to a big iceberg with some very cool layered ice structures. Today, several Minky whales were checking out our sampling devices and used the hole the Palmer made in the sea ice to breathe. It was magical to deploy our gear while you hear the puffs of exhaling whales at 50 ft from the ship. You wonder what they make of our big orange ship with equipment dangling over the side in their white and grey world.
Things are busy on the Nathaniel B. Palmer! We are sampling the phytoplankton in the ice and the water column to quantify and characterize them (we kill them and take them home to analyze!). Several people are doing different experiments with the phytoplankton (we torture them with different environmental stresses and then we kill them!). Things are going pretty well and it is very scenic! Last night we came very close to a big iceberg with some very cool layered ice structures. Today, several Minky whales were checking out our sampling devices and used the hole the Palmer made in the sea ice to breathe. It was magical to deploy our gear while you hear the puffs of exhaling whales at 50 ft from the ship. You wonder what they make of our big orange ship with equipment dangling over the side in their white and grey world.
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