By Sarah Lang, Ph.D. student at the Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island. // Aboard the Bold Horizon // If you asked a random person about the color of the ocean, they would probably tell you that it's some shade of blue or green. But perhaps that shade of blue looks slightly different …
By Audrey Delpech, postdoc in the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences department at UCLA Being part of the NASA S-MODE oceanographic mission was a great experience for me. It was only my second oceanographic mission and my first one on a US research vessel. I learned a lot about how to use the different instruments, interpret …
By Kelly Luis, NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology // Aboard the Bold Horizon // ʻAʻohe o kahi nana o luna o ka pali; iho mai a lalo nei; ʻike ke au nui ke au iki, hea lo a he alo. The top of the cliff isn't the …
By Gwendal Marechal, postdoctoral researcher at the Colorado School of Mines // Aboard the Bold Horizon // Upon leaving the Breton coastlines after my Ph.D., I started a postdoc at the Colorado School of Mines. After one month in the Colorado mountains, I traveled to Newport, Oregon, to board the Bold Horizon for one month …
By Joseph D'Addezio, oceanographer with the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory // NASA's Stennis Space Center in southern Mississippi // NASA's S-MODE mission faces quite the challenge: robustly observe, for the first time, ocean features spanning up to about 6.2 miles (10 kilometers) across. Currently, the oceanographic community routinely observes and studies very large ocean features, …
By Leo Middleton, Scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute // Aboard the Bold Horizon // It's like stumbling through a thick forest and breaking out into a glade. A quiet has settled on this piece of sea as the waves calm. You can't make a good map to get to this place. In the ocean, …
By Alex Kinsella, Postdoctoral Investigator at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution // Aboard the Bold Horizon // My favorite part of being at sea is the opportunity to see unique parts of the natural world that aren't accessible from land. My colleagues have done a fantastic job in their blog posts explaining the science that we've …
