Le Commandant Charcot science party at the magnetic North Pole
Photo credit: Antoine Le Guen
Transarctic CHARCOT Project
Le Commandant Charcot: Fall 2024 (21 days). Nome, Alaska, USA to Longyearbyen, Svalbard
Led the Arctic Bottom Pressure Recorder - Follow On project data recovery effort, funded by NASA to validate GRACE-FO satellite mission.
SIZRS Logo
Seasonal Ice Zone Reconnaissance Surveys (SIZRS)
US Coast Guard C-130: Summer 2023 (1 flight). Kodiak, Alaska, USA to Kodiak, Alaska, USA
Science team member flying with the Seasonal Ice Zone Reconnaissance Survey to deploy oceanographic drifters and atmospheric profiling equipment (SIZRS).
Science participants and mentors onboard RV Sikuliaq
Photo credit: Lloyd Pikok Jr.
UNOLS AICC early career chief scientist training
RV Sikuliaq: Summer 2023 (7 days). Seward, Alaska, USA to Nome, Alaska, USA
Train as an early career future chief scientist through the NSF-funded University National Oceanographic Laboratory System/Arctic Icebreaker Coordinating Committee.
RV Sikuliaq in Aialik Bay
Arctic Observing Network
RV Sikuliaq: Fall 2022 (34 days). Nome, Alaska, USA to Seward, Alaska, USA
Service AON mooring and perform high resolution interdisciplinary hydrographic survey of freeze-up.
USCGC Healy on HLY2101
Photo credit: Chief Petty Officer Matt Masachi
Fate of freshwater and heat in the West Greenland Current
USCGC Healy: Fall 2021 (32 days). Nuuk, Greenland to Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Perform an extensive hydrographic survey in Baffin Bay to understand the heat and freshwater transport through Davis Strait and into glacial fjords from the West Greenland Current.
Iceberg and mooring on OSNAP 2020
Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Program (OSNAP)
RV Neil Armstrong: Summer 2020 (37 days). Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA to Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA
Service moorings and perform high-resolution hydrographic survey of Cape Farewell as part of the Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Program (OSNAP).
Wave through porthole on RV Neil Armstrong
Statistical Assessment of Salinity Sensors Experiment (SASSE)
RV Neil Armstrong: Fall 2019 (4 days). Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA to Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA
Perform rigorous CTD conductivity calibration, test AHC on CTD winch, test X-Spar buoy, test EcoCTD, calibrate Multibeam.
Students on fantail of RV Neil Armstrong
Joint Program student cruise: Hydrography and ecology of the Northeast US Shelf
Co-chief scientist
RV Neil Armstrong: Fall 2019 (2 days). Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA to Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA
Characterize properties and dynamics of frontal zone in LTER line on Northeast U.S. Shelf. Training cruise for first-year graduate students.
USCGC Healy breaking ice
Arctic Observing Network
USCGC Healy: Fall 2018 (25 days). Dutch Harbor, Alaska, USA to Dutch Harbor, Alaska, USA
Service moorings and perform high-resolution hydrographic survey of Chukchi and Beaufort Shelf as part of the Arctic Observing Network (AON)
RV Neil Armstrong off east Greenland,
Photo credit: Captain Kent Sheasley
Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Program (OSNAP)
RV Neil Armstrong: Summer 2018 (37 days). Reykjavík, Iceland to Reykjavík, Iceland
Service moorings and perform high-resolution hydrographic survey of Cape Farewell as part of the Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Program (OSNAP).
NRV Alliance in port in Akureyri, Iceland
Iceland Greenland Seas Project
NRV Alliance: Winter 2018 (27 days). Reykjavík, Iceland to Isafjordur, Iceland
Storm-chasing cruise to conduct coupled air-sea measurements in the Nordic Seas during active convection. Perform high resolution CTD and XCTD surveys, deploy mooring, deploy and recover gliders as part of the Iceland-Greenland Seas Project (IGP)
Wave crashing over USCGC Healy in Bering Sea
Distributed Biological Observatory
USCGC Healy: Summer 2017 (22 days). Dutch Harbor, Alaska, USA to Dutch Harbor, Alaska, USA
Characterize changing Pacific-Arctic ecosystem from interdisciplinary sampling approach as part of the Distributed Biological Observatory (DBO)
RV Neil Armstrong on OSNAP,
Photo credit: Mattias Cape
Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Program (OSNAP)
RV Neil Armstrong: Summer 2016 (40 days). Reykjavík, Iceland to St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada
Service moorings and perform high-resolution hydrographic survey of Cape Farewell as part of the Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Program (OSNAP).
RV Bjarni during transit north of Iceland
Iceland Marine & Freshwater Research Institute (MFRI) repeat hydrography
RV Bjarni Saemundsson: Summer 2015 (16 days). Isafjordur, Iceland to Reykjavík, Iceland.
Service moorings and perform high-resolution hydrographic survey of Iceland as part of the repeat hydrographic surveys conducted by the Iceland Marine & Freshwater Research Institute hydrographic surveys, conducted four times per year (MFRI).
Working on a stratigraphic section
Patagonia Field Program
Winter 2015 (17 days). Patagonia, Chile
Geologic survey of central Andes to understand generation timescale of the range during winter 2016 (Yale Geology & Geophysics).
Working on sea ice in front of USCGC Healy
Study of Under-Ice Blooms in the Chukchi Ecosystem
USCGC Healy: Summer 2014 (42 days). Dutch Harbor, AK, USA to Dutch Harbor, AK, USA
Characterize early spring conditions in the Chukchi Sea and how the spring phytoplankton bloom forms as part of the Study of Under-Ice Blooms in the Chukchi Ecosystem (SUBICE).