The new wave of oceanographers: Sijing Shen
PhD student in physical oceanography concentrating on the impact of warm and salty Indian Ocean water leakage into the Cape Cauldron region of the southeast Atlantic.
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QUICCHE blog: Round the southernmost tip off Africa
Credit: Isabelle Giddy. By Isabelle Giddy Round the southernmost tip off Africa. We’ve won, we’ve lost, we’ve learnt, we’ve discovered. Withstood swells and currents worthy of their reputation. Upon seemingly a lone royal blue spec heaving in the middle of the Cape Cauldron, Less a lonely storm petrel to be seen, fluorescent pyrosome, light-addicted squid The dark moonless nights beam, reminder that somewhere SWOT is circling, watching. We have gathered in our watches, tirelessly, happily for the
QUICCHE blog: Land. This is ship.
Land. This is ship. The one with the radio today is Johan Edholm , and I’m a PhD student in physical oceanography with Polar Gliders from the University of Gothenburg. Our group is quite focused on heat transfer between the ocean and the atmosphere. This is quite important to know since excess heat from the atmosphere is taken up by the ocean, which dampens our warming effect on the climate. There are four major processes that control
QUICCHE blog: One week left and “there can be only one”…
Hi everyone, my name is Nothando Duma, a Masters student at the University of Cape Town. This is my first research cruise and I am here to collect nitrates(NO3-) and dissolved organic nitrogen (DON) isotope ratios and nutrient samples. I collect these from the water samples collected by the CTD Rosette. When I’m not collecting my own samples I assist in other areas such as the data collection of the Vertical Microstructure Profiler (VMP), deployment
QUICCHE blog: Analyzing MET and TSG data during the night-watch
One of the goals of the QUICCHE campaign is to characterize the air-sea heat fluxes in the Cape Cauldron, looking at what the most significant oceanic and atmospheric drivers there are in the area. Recovering the Wire Flyer in a big swell. Credits: Sam Fredriksson Good morning from the Cape Basin and the QUICCHE campaign! I’m Michaela , master student at the University of Gothenburg and I’m working on my master’s thesis as a part of
QUICCHE blog: Mr squid
Onboard, everyone has their own shifting time. Mr squid Hello everyone! My name is Sijing Shen. I’m a first-year PhD student from School of Ocean Science, Bangor University. Through the previous posts, you’ve already got an overview of the QUICCHE project, which my PhD project is based on (I’m figuring out how the warm salty Indian Ocean water leakage into the South Atlantic influences the Benguela upwelling ecosystem over long time periods) …Okay! Let’s take
QUICCHE blog: The Wave Glider Deployment
The Wave Glider is one of the many oceanographic instruments used in the QUICCHE campaign. The Wave Glider deployment. Ahoy from the R/V Roger Revelle! I am Tesha Toolsee from the Southern Ocean Carbon-Climate Observatory (SOCCO-CSIR) in Cape Town, South Africa. I am a 2nd year PhD candidate researching the impact of storms and meso-submesoscale features on the air-sea exchange of carbon dioxide (CO2) using insights from autonomous robots known as the Wave Glider! The Wave Glider
QUICCHE blog: The campfire at night
Hi everyone! My name is Rachel Sampson, I am a first-year PhD student at the University of Miami and I am already swimming in research out here in the Cape Cauldron! As you all know from previous posts, one of the Beal lab’s specialties will be deploying two 4,000-meter moorings which include ~50 instruments on each. This morning, we have finally picked up our winch used to deploy the moorings. As I write, we are
QUICCHE blog: The Agulhas leakage
The Agulhas leakage is thought to have major implications for heat transport and global circulation patterns of the ocean and the QUICCHE campaign seeks to measure its magnitude using a large suite of instruments on a variety of oceanographic scales.
QUICCHE blog: The first deployment of the Wire Flyer
The Wire Flyer and the CTD rosette casting to a depth of 2300m were successfully deployed from the R/V Roger Revelle. Luna, the Wire Flyer of the QUICCHE campaign. Greetings QUICCHE blog readers! I am Nikita Qosholo, an honours’ student at the University of Cape Town (UCT). I still can’t believe I got the opportunity to be part of this amazing scientific adventure. Just like a bunch of others on board, this is my first