Tales from the Sea

From June 11 - 23, 2022, CERC.OCEAN researcher William Nesbitt, Caroline Fradette, Chukwuka Orji, and undergradte students, Adriana Reitano and Sara Wong, participated in the TReX Deep 2 mission onboard R/V Coriolis on the Gulf of St. Lawrence, led by CERC.OCEAN chair Dr. Douglas Wallace.  

• Read about their trip here
  
• Read about Chukwuka's first cruise experience

From May 10 - June 11, 2022, PhD student Kitty Kam participated in the NWA-BCP mission onboard R/V Celtic Explorer at the Labrador Sea. She collected samples for DIC-C13, Total Alkalinity, nutrients, pCO₂, pH and dissolved oxygen.

• An introduction of NWA-BCP cruise by chief scientist Brian Ward.
  
• Read about Kitty's trip HERE

From Oct 22 - 26, 2021, CERC.OCEAN researcher William Nesbitt and undergradte students, Adriana Reitano and Sara Wong, participated in the TReX Deep 1 mission onboard R/V Coriolis on the Gulf of St. Lawrence, led by CERC.OCEAN chair Dr. Douglas Wallace and GEOMAR Scientist Dr. Toste Tanhua. They collected samples for DIC-C13, Total Alkalinity, nutrients, DOC, δ¹⁸O, inorganic iodide, and I¹²⁹ .
Read all about their trip HERE.

From June 4 - 23, 2019, CERC.OCEAN researchers Lin Cheng and Kitty Kam participated in the AZOMP cruise in the Labrador Sea on the CCGS Amundsen, departing from Halifax, NS and ending in St. Anthony, NFLD. Kitty and Lin collected samples for dissolved oxygen, DIC-C13, Total Alkalinity, and δ¹⁸O. Read all about their trip HERE.

Three members of the CERC.OCEAN team joined the MSM74 cruise onboard the German vessel, the Maria S. Merian, from St. John's to Reykjavik. CTD samples were collected along a number of transects across the Labrador and Irminger Seas. Read more about this trip here:

• OSNAP Blog - And we're off!
• OSNAP Blog 2
• OSNAP Blog - Life Onboard an Ocean Cruise
• OSNAP Blog - Surveying an Eddy
• Onboard MSM74 - Diving into the Biogeochemistry of the North Atlantic

In June 2018, PhD student Sebastian Haas, CERC.OCEAN researcher Anna Haverstock, and student Shona MacDonald travelled to Powell Lake, BC to sample the ancient ocean waters of this deep fjord with help of a team from UBC. This builds on the 2016 trip, and this research should help to further understand how nitrogen species are tranformed under low- or no-oxygen levels. Read all about the trip HERE.

Following his trip on the R/V Poseidon, PhD student Ricardo Arruda Monteiro da Silva hopped on the R/V Maria S. Merian to participate in the MSM73 cruise, from Cadiz, Spain, to St. John's, Newfoundland. Ricardo was responsible for CTD watch and sampling, and the underway data. Despite issues with the pCO2 underway system, it helped Ricardo gain invaluable experience about troubleshooting tech at sea. 

PhD student Ricardo Arruda Monteiro da Silva participated in a research cruise onboard the German vessel, Poseidon from January 20 - February 11, 2018 from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria to Mindelo, Cape Verde. Ricardo was responsible for processing underway data (pCO2, O2, chlorophyll, T, and S) and CTD sampling (nutrients, pCO2, and halocarbons) to help track and understand this Eastern Boundary upwelling system.

Students and researchers from Dalhousie joined the Irish Vessel, the R/V Celtic Explorer, departing from St. John's, Canada on April 26th and arriving in Galway, Ireland on May 23rd. Learn more about the team of CERC.OCEAN researchers who participated in the CE17007 GO-SHIP cruise along the A02 line from and the varied data they were able to colelct and analyze while battling the rough seas of the North Atlantic Ocean. 

• An introduction to this GO-SHIP cruise 
• Read about undergraduate student Lachlan Riehl's experience on the carbon team during his first research cruise
• PhD student Ricardo Arruda Monteiro da Silva talks about the underway systems during both legs of the cruise 
• Learn about the nutrient team, where researchers from Ireland (MI & NUIG) and Dalhousie (Liz Kerrigan & Claire Normandeau) compared data using two similar systems while onboard the ship
• Master's Student Lin Cheng and Claire Normandeau conducted novel d13C measurements onboard a ship for the first time using a CRDS analyzer

PhD student Chris L'Esperance was onboard the R/V Meteor in March and April 2017, conducting a seafloor tracer release experiment in the Peruvian shelf oxygen minimum zone.

Learn about PhD student Lorenza Raimondi's cruise in the Labrador Sea in April/May 2016 on board the CCGS Hudson. Lorenza was taking samples to investigate how deep convection in this area of the North Atlantic affects exchanges in carbon, oxygen, and heat with the atmosphere.

Learn about the Powell Lake Sampling trip from August 2016, spearheaded by PhD student Sebastian Haas, with help from honours student Jessie Jawanda, CERC.OCEAN researcher Anna Haverstock, and a great group from UBC (Rich Pawlocwicz & Chris Payne). Learn why Powell Lake is so interesting and look at pictures of this beautiful British Colombian lake!

In May of 2016, five members of the CERC.OCEAN team were onboard the German vessel, R/V Maria S. Merian from St. John's to Reykjavik to deploy the SeaCycler mooring in the Labrador sea, and to validate these measurements at sea by taking samples from the CTD rosette. Read all about the trip here:

• SeaCycler is successfully deployed in the Labrador Sea
• SeaCycler team is overjoyed by preliminary success
• A focus on quality control of the SeaCycler mooring

Learn about Rob's trip from Bremerhaven, Germany around the southern portion of the Irminger Sea and back during the summer of 2015. Rob was a recent Honours Graduate, working with Tim Kalvelage (post-doc) and Dr. Doug Wallace, and also worked in the CERC.OCEAN lab throughout his undergraduate degree.

Learn about Ryan's time on the R/V Arni Fridriksson to the Irminger Sea during June and July of 2015. Ryan Barkhouse is currently an Oceanography Masters student, studing under Doug Wallace. 

Learn about Derek's cruise, from Gdansk, Poland to Halifax, Nova Scotia on the Russian vessel, Akademik Ioffe. In addition to participating in this CERC.OCEAN research cruise, Derek also volunteers with the SeaCycler team.