It has been nearly two and a half weeks since I stepped off the research vessel Oceanus, and the phantom swaying…
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…
To get data from the ocean, it takes a village. That village includes a highly trained support…
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…
Outside the California Current, the last few experiments are being run aboard the Oceanus at a place Jim Bishop calls “Oceana…
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…
All members of Jim Bishop’s team on board the Oceanus have been trained in key deck operations, such…
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.
Meet the Gremlin. Several years ago, Jim Bishop found him in a toolkit that came with a box of new particulate inorganic…
If you’ve been tracking the Oceanus, you may have noticed a familiar pattern in some…
