ABOARD THE RVIB N. B. PALMER, ON THE SOUTHERN OCEAN-- Adios Punta Arenas, Chile. Hello Research Vessel and Ice Breaker, Nathaniel B. Palmer. We, the crew, support staff and scientists of the NBP Iceberg Cruise III, left port in Punta Arenas on March 6th to begin our 40-day cruise... {Read More »}

ICEBERG A43K, SOUTHERN OCEAN-- Phytoplankton need dissolved nutrients, such as silicate, phosphate, and nitrate to grow in seawater. Open waters in Antarctica are rich in… {Read More »}

SOUTHERN OCEAN-- The main research pursuit behind our group of scientists' travel aboard the N.B. Palmer this month is to see how icebergs influence surrounding… {Read More »}

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA-- On Monday 26 May I will depart for Punta Arenas, Chile, in the tip of South America, on my way to the… {Read More »}

Christina Riesselman is a geology Ph.D. student from Stanford working on the ANDRILL (ANtarctic geological DRILLing) Southern McMurdo Sound project at McMurdo Station, Antarctica. This multinational scientific drilling project is bringing up deep cores of sediment from under ice-covered seas at the edge of the Antarctic continent. {Read More »}