Here’s a quick excerpt from the final report that my chief scientist wrote and I think it sums up our work well:
"Over the last 5 weeks we have done a total of 113 stations, plus trace metals casts, optics casts and continuous underway sampling (while on station and in between stations). Even leftover water from the niskins was used for unplanned measurements to be run back in our labs. We have an excellent quality dataset to work with when we get back to land. As we moved northwards we observed a freshening of surface waters, a drop in subsurface oxygen levels, high carbon concentrations in the western region, and I’m sure we have a lot of interesting biogeochemical information that will come from all the samples to be ran back in our home labs."
Rather than drone on and on about all the wonderful things we have learned from our science, let me leave you with some photos from the last week.