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...
My last couple of days in Antarctica and Scott Base really feels like home. Everyone down here has become like family and I really wish I could stay here longer! I made sure I packed as much as I could into my last days here down on the ice. Monday was spent finishing...
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...
