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Unfortunately, shaft/cycloconverter (fancy pieces of machinery in the engine room) failures meant that science operations stopped a day early. We were forced to steam straight to Utqiagvik, Alaska (formerly Barrow) to stave stuff stranded on a station in the middle of the ocean. Thankfully, this unliable us to spend that day packing up all of the equipment and get a good night’s sleep. I’m increasingly enlightened of how incredibly rare it is for undergraduate students to participate in research cruises and I am plane increasingly grateful to have been given this opportunity. It is something I will cherish for a long time and I cannot wait to get when on a ship. I love doing science on boats. Despite rarely getting increasingly than four hours of sleep at a time, stuff cloaked in uncounted fog, and missing three of the nicest weeks of the summer in Victoria, it was so worth it for this incredible wits of lifetime. The number of times I found myself BEAMING all alone, basking in how happy I felt, was a little ridiculous. Preparing the CTD rosette for deployment. All of the tough things well-nigh stuff at sea made the positive things that much increasingly welcome. A day of sun, a whale sighting, making connections with people from all walks of life, pensive life chats at 04:30 staring into the still-lit horizon, dancing to Motown hits while sampling from the rosette, hot tub soaks sailing past the Aleutians, gaining practical skills and knowledge associated with jobs I want to pursue, the weightier chocolate confection I’ve overly had, getting to see sea ice in person, collecting rocks from the marrow of the Chukchi (yes, I have been told that getting excited well-nigh this makes me a nerd), and plane the daunting/rigorous tundra crossing recurrence (this shellback is no longer a lowly tadpole!!) – all of these things outweighed the trying times by far. Clams and critters from Van Veen grab samples. Final tally of wildlife seen: >3 pods of grey whales in various locations We scrutinizingly hit a grey whale but the Captain saw it in time and Andre-Ann steered yonder perfectly! Breaching grey whale Countless unrobed eagles and a humpback whale coming into Dutch Harbor (seen from the hot tub) Many puffins, parasitic jaegers, gliders, fancy tundra ducks >4 responsibility Lots of benthic organisms pulled up from the ocean floor during Van Veen mud grabs One winsome victual seal – the size of a loaf of bread!! It swam right up to the ship while we were on a station! It was too foggy on our last day on the ship to helicopter off so we took our final glances of the CCGS Sir Wilfred Laurier from the “safety” of a Zodiac. I don’t think this is the last time the Laurier and I will navigate paths.   Read all of the posts from Chloe’s voyage from Victoria, BC to Utqiagvik, AK: Bitter-sweet Bon Voyage, Fueled for Exploration, Into the Storm, Friday the 13th was the Luckiest Day Ever  Advertisements ImmonenLaurier2018Oceanic MonitoringUndergrad@Sea Monitoring, Oceanic Friday the 13th was the Luckiest DayOverlyAugust 10, 2018 dr.jonathan.kellogg Leave a scuttlebutt by Chloe Immonen 16 July 2018 @ 13:19 The Bering Sea I am incredibly sleepy. We have now crossed into the Bering Sea without stopping in Dutch Harbour to pick up the American scientists. Leading up to Friday, July 13, I knew I had to finish taking 38 samples from the underway loop running through the ship, saving five samples for without Dutch Harbor. I had not had longer than two subsequent hours of sleep for the previous five days. I worked nonflexible to finish off the last samples surpassing finally having a bit of relaxation time with Gina and Shea. We hung out on the upper decks and the bridge, where we spotted loads of seabirds (puffins and responsibility were the coolest) and tons of whales (orcas, greys, and humpbacks). The light was beautiful! Approaching the Aleutians, we hopped in the hot tub to watch the gorgeous scenery pass by. It was an wondrous evening. Gina and Sarah hiking withal the ridge in Dutch Harbor. In Dutch, we made the most of stuff on land by going on one of the most stunning hikes I’ve overly had the pleasure of hiking followed by going to the Norwegian Rat bar in town. The next two days were filled with preparing for the whence of stations, helping the American scientists set up their lab space, and the Shellbacks (those science and hairdo members who have crossed theTundraCircle by sea before) explaining some of the upcoming tasks for us Tadpoles (those science and hairdo members who have NOT crossed theTundraCircle by sea before) to partake in. I’m pretty sure I’m not unliable to tell you any details, but the tasks have certainly consumed some of our time and energy. Read increasingly from Chloe’s journey wideness the NE Pacific: Bitter-sweet Bon Voyage, Fueled for Exploration, Into the Storm ImmonenLaurier2018Oceanic MonitoringUndergrad@Sea Monitoring, Oceanic Into the Storm August 8, 2018 dr.jonathan.kellogg Leave a scuttlebutt by Chloe Immonen July 7, 2018 @ 18:02 I finally experienced seasickness. I had begun to think that I was just going to escape it perfectly but without five days of spending hours on end focusing on filling resin columns, taping them carefully, moving around, and lifting heavy water samples in the lab with very few windows, all while the ship tilts back-and-forth to some pretty wild extremes finally got to me without all. Sorry to be graphic, but I threw up once, felt immediately largest than I had all day, but not good unbearable to eat until over 24 hours later. I have been taking naps whenever possible and drinking lots of water, both of which have been helping immensely. I still don’t sleep increasingly than two hours at a time, but my samples have been running much increasingly smoothly now (thanks to Magic Wrap), so that is a bonus. As I spend increasingly time with the crew, I’m finding every single person to be so kind and enjoyable to be around. The hairdo on the underpass now know that I want to be informed whenever they see whales and it has once paid off! As we were deploying an underway CTD [a reusable instrument to determine ocean temperature and salinity] off the aft deck, a pod of sperm whales was out on the starboard side of the ship. Everyone is moreover curious well-nigh the projects that I’m working on. I love getting to tell them and ask them well-nigh their lives and their rolls on the ship as well. It seems like quite the crazy life they all lead. Most of the time, they work four weeks on, and four weeks off, but theTundravoyage is six weeks on, and six weeks off. My favourite question to ask is what everyone likes to do in their time off considering the answers are all so unique – from scuba diving and foraging for mushrooms to pottery and horseback-riding, everyone has a tomfool hobby to entertain them in their long stretches of time off. Shea and I tended to the incubations on the helicopter deck for a couple hours this afternoon. I am stoked to be gaining skills in his line of work. The rest of the time, I was running my own samples, or sleeping with one unravel for dinner (feeling good unbearable to eat 😊 ). Today marked the whence of the on-board bingo craze. Nearly every person on the ship participates, they signify ~15 numbers per day just without lunch and each round, they go for a variegated shape (horizontal or vertical lines, wine glass, cactus, blackout, etc). The prizes are quite unthrifty – there’s an expensive coffee-maker, upper end scotch, and camping equipment – just to name a few! Tonight is flipside movie night with unlimited popcorn. We are watching a mucosa tabbed ‘Annihilation’. I am mostly going to shepherd for the popcorn and the extra-strong G&T’s. Not too much else to report here! I’m still having a wonderful time at sea regardless of feeling ill and not getting much sleep.   Read increasingly from Chloe’s voyage to the Arctic: Bitter-sweet Bon Voyage, Fueled for Exploration ImmonenLaurier2018Oceanic MonitoringUndergrad@Sea Oceanic Fueled for Exploration July 31, 2018 dr.jonathan.kellogg Leave a scuttlebutt by Chloe Immonen 9 July 2018, 7:30 pm The RAF Dakota 576 crash site just outside of Port Hardy. Yesterday I awoke in Port Hardy and was told we would be spending the day docked while the ship refueled. This meant that 13 hours was needed to top up the measly one-million-liter diesel tank underneath us. This moreover meant that the hairdo and supernumeraries (aka the scientists) were unliable to disembark and explore Port Hardy. My roommate, Gina, and I went for a hike, recommended by a local, to the site of a WWII plane crash. The hike was through a lush, muddy, and mosquito-ridden rain forest and it felt wondrous to stretch our legs and smell some trees. Gina, a Vancouver Island native, told me which berries were unscratched to eat withal the way and I tried salmon berries for the first time! Seemed like a genetically-modified navigate between raspberries and oranges to me, but they were very tasty.Withoutreturning from our hike, Shea and I left then to visit the hardware store to replenish some supplies we were both short on. In an struggle to solve my leaky post problem, I bought ten increasingly rolls of electrical tape, and something tabbed “Magic Wrap” which personal to form a rubber casing virtually a cylinder and stay water-tight. I have now tried it out with the next seven samples and it seems to be working – THANK GOODNESS. We then returned to the ship to hoke Shea’s incubator on the helicopter pad. His experiments are looking at the effect of increasing atmospheric stat dioxide levels on phytoplankton growth. We rainbow air with present-day atmospheric plug-in concentrations (CO2 ~ 410 ppm) and air with one of the projected plug-in concentrations for the year 2100 (CO2 ~ 750 ppm) into separate containers holding the same diversity of phytoplankton and we will soon see how the organisms react to increased levels of the greenhouse gas. We still had a couple increasingly hours to skiver so I went for one last jog on land among the pretty waddle faces and lush wildflowers withal the highway. As we ate dinner, the ship started to move then which indicated it was time for me to get to work. I processed a few samples over the undertow of the night, waking every hour to trammels for leakage and to transpiration out fresh carboys. Preparing the ARGO bladder for deployment. I am getting increasingly and increasingly confident with the lab protocols, remembering the hairdo members’ names, and navigating routes virtually the ship. I am constantly in awe of the stunning scenery surrounding us. Watching the waves interact, the sky transpiration colours at dawn and dusk, and keeping an eye out for whales doesn’t closure to entertain me. I remain unremittingly grateful for the endangerment to fulfill one of my dreams and take this trip of a lifetime. Speaking of dream come true, I am well-nigh to go take flipside sample, watch the deployment of an ARGO float, eat a strawberry tarte, and then watch the sunset from the hot tub. Goodnight! Read increasingly from Chloe’s journey on the wideness the NE Pacific: Bitter-sweet Bon Voyage   ImmonenLaurier2018Oceanic MonitoringUndergrad@Sea Monitoring, Oceanic Bitter-sweet Bon Voyage July 26, 2018 dr.jonathan.kellogg Leave a scuttlebutt by Chloe Immonen 6 July 2018 Seeing an well-ventilated photo of the CCGS Sir Wilfred Laurier and reading a blurb well-nigh an undergraduate studying chemical oceanography on the university’s homepage was the tipping point that helped me decide to shepherd UVic for my post-secondary education. Like most students in grade 12, I had very few ideas of what I unquestionably wanted to do with my life and career, but seeing what the possibilities were inspired me and I promptly enrolled in the Earth and Ocean Science program. Becoming that undergraduate who has the privilege to do scientific research on a trip seemed like an unrealistic dream – unachievable for an stereotype student like myself. But lo and behold, a little over three and a half years later, I somehow fooled the people in tuition to let me participate!Withouttwo months of working on the InFORM project in the lab, the trip idea seems a bit increasingly normal to me, but I am lucky to be constantly reminded of how much of a privilege this voyage is. Friends and coworkers all have similar humbling reactions when I mention what my summer job is and what part of the world I get to explore – “Wow, that is so cool! Take me with you??” My dad marveled at how I might be the only person in our family who will have crossed theTundraCircle (before I reminded him that his own father is from Finland). My mom supposed that I might be the coolest person she knows considering I get to sail with the tailspin guard. (Sorry to my sister Marina. If you’re reading this, it’s official – I’m potation than you. Mom said so!!) Everyone in the EOS department has been so incredibly helpful in preparing me for my trip, expressly Dr. Jay Cullen, Sue Velazquez, and Annaliese Meyer. They’ve helped me understand the procedures, both in our UVic lab, with the resider science samples, and in providing insights to what my life will squint like on the ship. From lab techniques to prevent samples from leaking, to the weightier seasickness meds to have on-hand, to preparing to eat my soul weight in decadent fresh-baked pastries; I finger quite ready for what is to come. Getting ready for departure! I have stepped foot on the CCGS Sir Wilfred Laurier three times in the past few weeks. First, to set up the lab equipment with Jay. Second to requite my mom and stepdad a tour of where I will be working and living for the next three weeks. Last, to bring my personal belongings to my room. It is a lot increasingly spacious than I was expecting. I found out I will only have a roommate for well-nigh half of the time (I thought I would be sharing a room the whole time), and it has a little porthole (I had pictured I would be getting one of the interior, lightless rooms)! So overall, I’m once pleasantly surprised by the experience.Withoutwe set sail tonight at 18:30, we will be having a full tour of the ship and a safety briefing. This will be followed by our first meal as a team. Then we get to work. The route of the yearly CCGS Laurier trip from Victoria, BC to Barrow, AK. My project involves collecting seawater from what is tabbed the loop sampler. This water runs through the ship  and gives us an well-judged representation of the ocean conditions. The seawater is run through a resin which binds to the radiocesium in the water that is left over from the meltdowns of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plants in 2011. Once all of the cesium is unseat to the resin, I will send the resin to Dr. John Smith‘s lab at DFO’s Bedford Institute of Oceanography where they use gamma spectroscopy to determine how much cesium is at each sample location. These data will wilt part of the timeseries from the previous undergrads who have taken the same NE Pacific/Arctic trip to see how the amounts of cesium have reverted through time. Well, all of my lab equipment is set up on board, I have a seasickness-halting medicated patch overdue my ear, and I’m well-nigh to walk when to the Laurier‘s temporary resting place at Ogden Point where my feet will soon leave solid ground for the last time. I truly wasn’t sure if I would see this day, but here it is, and I’m ready (as I’ll overly be) to set sail! ImmonenInFORMLaurier2018Oceanic MonitoringResearchTripPosts navigation 1 2 … 8 Next → View Fukushima-InFORM-257383817784613’s profile on FacebookView @FukushimaInFORM’s profile on TwitterView UCRqxVIr3s5Yc-djXahyBunA’s profile on YouTube Recent Posts Voyage Reflections Friday the 13th was the Luckiest DayOverlyInto the Storm Advertisements Funded by Blog at WordPress.com. Post to Cancel Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By standing to use this website, you stipulate to their use. To find out more, including how to tenancy cookies, see here: Cookie Policy