I grew up outside of Chicago and I wasn’t a Boy Scout, so sometimes I feel like I missed out on learning the type of practical—albeit rarely used—skills that would have garnered merit badge...
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2015/03/24/adapting-to-the-unexpected/
I’m writing from where L’Atalante is currently parked, 18S 170W, right in the middle of a giant, anomalously high sea surface chlorophyll patch. Such a high concentration of chlorophyll—a p...
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2015/03/16/sampling-up-a-storm/
I’ve never been good at navigating. When I come out of the subway I invariably turn the wrong direction, even though I already have my nose buried in Google Maps, and then walk around the block...
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2015/03/10/navigating-the-south-pacific-using-dna/
Greetings from the center of that eddy I mentioned in my last post! We’ve been here for five days so far, but tomorrow we are finally moving on. As far as eddies go, this is a tiny one, only 15...
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2015/03/09/a-swirling-stew-of-trichodesmium/
We have completed the first two stations of the OUTPACE cruise and we are steaming to Station 3. By noon tomorrow we should be in the center of an eddy that our colleagues back on dry land have u...
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2015/03/05/trichodesmium-is-everywhere-2/
The OUTPACE 2015 cruise has set sail on February 20! We left port in Nouméa at 8:30 a.m. last Friday morning. I lost sight of land around 10 a.m. or so, and I won’t see it again until we retur...
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2015/03/03/outpace-cruise-setting-sail/
Scientists from research institutions around the world are participating in a research expedition aboard the R/V L 'Atalante to study how microorganisms in the South Pacific Ocean influence the c...
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2015/02/18/bonjour-de-noumea/