Our Last Day at Sea
We have come to the end of our 16th annual LTER cruise, and what a wonderful one it was. Thank you to everyone who has…
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Melting Antarctica Dispatches
The Microbial Loop
The Microbial Biogeochemistry group (B-045) (under the direction of Dr. Hugh Ducklow) is one of the science groups here on board the LM Gould. Our…
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Avian Island in Pictures
Each year on the PAL-LTER summer cruise, members of the seabird group (B-013) spend 5 days working on Avian Island. Avian Island is located just…
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Avian Island in Video
To accompany our current featured story on Avian Island, we have uploaded a video taken by our scientists on the island. This one minute thirty…
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Fun With Phytoplankton
Today we will introduce you to the work of B016, the researchers here on the LTER cruise that study phytoplankton (microscopic plants.) This is the…
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Zooplankton Under the Microscope
As you may have seen in one of our earlier dispatches regarding the zooplankton sampling methods (to read the dispatch click here) the zooplankton team…
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Marine Mammals
Each year on the cruise, we are privileged to have many encounters with marine mammals -- mammals that live and feed primarily in the ocean.…
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Penguins: Barometers of Climate Change
While it may not be initially intuitive to think so, penguins make up a major proportion of top predator species found in the Western Antarctic…
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Shrinking Under Pressure
Monday we reached the first station of the southernmost portion of the LTER grid and started the “200” line. We began sampling offshore at station…
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Measuring the Melting (SASSI)
Today we take a look at the Synoptic Antarctic Shelf-Slope Interactions (SASSI) moorings that are being deployed on the continental shelf of the western Antarctic…
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