We’re rapidly reaching the end of the PIPERS Expedition to the Ross Sea. The cruise was planned for 66 days; in the end it looks like it may be 62 days to account for some fuel calculations and a safety…

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This is an amendment to the first blog post about classrooms.   Julie Parno from CRREL has been aboard the PIPERS cruise, participating in sea ice research, including LIDAR scans of the ice surface (Check out Julie’s previous post here!). Before the…

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We’ve posted a lot about the cool (pun) science and life as a scientist aboard the NBP, but the science party represents less than half of the crew aboard the NBP (actually, we’re called guests). Edison Chouest Offshore (ECO), the…

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Out here in the Southern Ocean, surrounded by ice and darkness, things can get a bit lonely. As we slowly work our way north through the ice, stopping for Belgian Biogeochemical Stations, for Autonomous Underwater Vehicle missions, and to drop…

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Well, it happened. We finally made it to Terra Nova Bay, and as we entered we ran smack into a katabatic wind event. To recap, these are strong winds that blow off the Antarctic continent, typically lasting for 12 –…

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[By Jean-Louis Tison, Universite Libre du Bruxelles] Hi everyone!…This is Jean-Louis Tison, one of the Belgians on board!..I thought I’d drop you a few words about our new exciting sight of yesterday, 28th of April. If you are a faithful…

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  Meet the faces of NBP17-04:  The crew of RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer, the amazing technical staff from the Antarctic Science Contract (ASC) and of course the science team.  Also updated to the Science Team page (http://geotracerkitchen.org/pipers/?page_id=43).

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If you were worried that the Easter Bunny was not intrepid enough to visit us out here on the Southern Ocean, never fear because Easter and the bunny landed on the NBP in technicolor glory.  On Easter morning the crew…

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