So What’s It Really Like Doing Research on a Ship?

The following are some observations about research life on a boat, in no particular order.

Close Quarters

The living quarters are below deck, except for the captain’s room, which is up near…

Setting Sail to Deploy Ocean Robots

Berkeley scientists use robots to probe biological secrets of the…

Aaaaand, we’re back!

The Oceanus tied up at Pier 30–32 in San Francisco at 7:20 a.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 23, and we are still getting our land…

Oceana Incognita

Outside the California Current, the last few experiments are being run aboard the Oceanus at a place Jim Bishop calls “Oceana…

A Floating Classroom for Students

All members of Jim Bishop’s team on board the Oceanus have been trained in key deck operations, such…

A Gremlin On Board

Meet the Gremlin. Several years ago, Jim Bishop found him in a toolkit that came with a box of new particulate inorganic…

With All Floats On Board, It’s Time to Head to Deeper Seas

All robots are present and accounted for. The two Carbon Flux Explorers launched yesterday and the day before were recovered today, including CFE-Cal 2 with its experimental sample collection system.

The Support Crew Behind the Science

To get data from the ocean, it takes a village. That village includes a highly trained support…

Motoring back home

We are nearing the end of this 10-day research trip, and as I’m writing, people are bustling around me in the process of…

Star Charting the Santa Cruz Basin at Night

If you’ve been tracking the Oceanus, you may have noticed a familiar pattern in some…