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Short hiatus, then much more!
Hi everyone! You might be wondering why there haven't been a lot of blogs recently. Well, the new JR has completed its first year of operations since the renovation - that's six straight expeditions....
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Happy Earth Day!
Happy Earth Day everyone, from a ship that spends its days studying the Earth! In honor of Earth Day, we just wanted to share with you a live web cam link from Ogden Point in Victoria. You can click on...
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Transiting to Tahiti
In preparation for Expedition 329: South Pacific Gyre, the JR is now transiting from Victoria, B.C. to Papeete, Tahiti. But even during a transit, work continues. Staff on the ship are conducting rig...
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Reuven's blog!
This morning I woke up at 4 a.m. eastern time to start my journey out to the west coast to board the R/V Atlantis, the research vessel we will be sailing on for the next 3 weeks. Usually, in our...
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Thanks St. Joseph's Elementary!
This morning we did our first live video broadcast of this expedition! Thanks so much to St. Joseph's Elementary summer school program in Alameda, California. We spoke to about 50 kids for about half...
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What's a geomicrobe sled?
It's not a sled that you might want with you on a snowy hillside. This is a piece of equipment almost like a small wire bookcase with sample collection equipment on its shelves. It has been sitting...
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Double-header video broadcast day!
Today was a great day for video broadcasting live from the Atlantis! We did our first program this morning to the North Museum in Lancaster, PA. This program was hosted by Jim Ringlein, who is a...
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Back in the water!
Today the weather was calmer and JASON was able to go back in the water - to deploy osmosamplers and take water samples at the two sites we were supposed to go to yesterday. So it's been down all day...
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We struggled mightily. . .and we won!
Today there was much cause for rejoicing on the Atlantis! As you may have read here earlier in our expedition, we fought with the stuck data logger on the head of the observatory (CORK) at Site 1027....
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Good-bye JASON, Hello Jason
So as this expedition ends, I am reflecting on three weeks with the JASON ROV. It is a truly amazing piece of technology. It becomes our eyes and muscles on the seafloor as we humans attempt to work in...
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