Over the last 3 weeks we’ve stopped at over 130 sites on the Chatham rise, deployed our equipment over 160 times and recorded species from 144km of sea bed. Tangaroa’s track for January. Last night we collected data from a few sites on Mernoo Bank. The footage...
The past two days brought the ocean’s most chaotic performance of our voyage with swell colliding from the northeast and the southwest, creating messy waves of up to 7 meters (almost 2 stories) and 80 km/hr winds. We decided to halt our research to avoid any potential...
Unfortunately, all good things must come to an end, but that did not mean that my time here at NIWA Christchurch had to finish with anything less than a bang! My final few days were an absolute whirlwind adventure encompassing engineering, data analysis and jet...
Day 10 into our voyage and we have made great progress, we have collected samples and data from nearly all our sites across the northern rise using the DTIS and Multicore and these past few days we have come around the Chatham Islands, although to our disappointment...
Wow, what a phenomenal first week – from gauging rivers throughout Molesworth Station to helping engineer weather systems for the Pacific Islands, it has all been incredibly eye opening! Fortunately for me I was only half way through what was set to be another week of...
After spending our first day coddled up in our bunk rooms cradling the toilet as we left Wellington in choppy swell, we’ve emerged the next day ready for action. We were greeted with a 5 star breakfast along with cheerful scientists who assured us calm seas were...
