Most of us think that our everyday lives put us under pressure, but the real pressure – in a physical sense – happens deep below the ocean surface. On Friday, most of us in the NAAMES III science teams aboard the Atlantis performed an exercise that clearly demonstrates that pressure. The ship is always buzzing […]
The Scripps research group focuses on aerosols, which are microscopic liquids and solids suspended in the air. Aerosols may be formed over the ocean when wave generated bubbles burst and eject particles into the atmosphere. Aerosols may also be formed from gas phase compounds released from the ocean that then react with sunlight and oxidants […]
Sea Sweep gently surfs Generating aerosol On the Atlantic While some aboard the Atlantis are fighting bubbles with rigor (see September 1, 2017 post), the atmospheric chemists on the bow of the ship are busy generating them. Not the same ones that the biologists were battling in the earlier post, but new ones that mimic […]
A Light Puzzle Today we were able to finish our first official station of NAAMES 3! Our group, the UCSB Optics team, saw a whirlwind of activity as we deployed half a dozen different instruments to begin to characterize all the different ways that light interacts with the ocean. You could call us the most […]
Sampling at the bow: measuring ocean-atmosphere exchange One of the main objectives in the NAAMES mission is to understand what gases and particles present in the surface ocean get into the atmosphere and influence clouds and climate. To help answer this question, our group measures gases present in both the ocean and atmosphere, as well […]
The Royal Treatment It can be tough saying goodbye to your loved ones as they sail off for a month at sea in the great, wide unknown. And perhaps some of you are concerned about the conditions we might be exposed to – which tropical storms will we collide with, what crazy hours will we […]
To better understand ecological processes in Arctic and boreal regions, researchers traversed Alaska’s mucky tundra and dug holes in permafrost.
GoPro or How to quantify white caps at the surface of the ocean ? Several groups of NAAMES are interested in the surface of the ocean covered with white caps. Why do we care about white caps? White caps have an important role in the air sea exchange, they are a mix of air and […]
Fighting bubbles… On board the R/V Atlantis we have many instruments through which we pump surface water or air to analyze their content while under way or at a station (parked in the middle of the ocean). Unfortunately, something as harmless as a bubble can make a lot of problems for us, as it affects […]
If the head count at dinner provides any indication of whether the upper hand belongs to science or the sea, the sea was easily ahead in the first round. After slightly delaying our departure from Woods Hole to allow a tropical storm to pass, we have now been steaming in its wake and feeling its […]
