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Indian Ocean - RRS Charles Darwin Cruise CD154
During December 2003 - January 2004 I participated on research crusie CD 154 aboard the RRS Charles Darwin (PIs Ian Hall & Rainer Zahn). We collected water and sediment samples with the aim of constraining proxy measurements so that the history of the Aghulas Current could be reconstructed.
| The RRS Charles Darwin docked at Cape Town after the cruise. | Sometimes the weather was a little too bad to do any science! |
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Acidifying water samples in the festive fume hood |
A Kasten corer, recovering mud from the seafloor 4000m down. |
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Arriving at Cape Town with Table Mountain appaering over the horizon with it's “table cloth” of cloud. |
The Cape of Good Hope |
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IODP Expedition 310 “Tahiti sea level”
| The onshore sampling party was held at the Marum in Bremen, contrasing to the drilling in Tahiti | Over 600 m of core was collected at over 90% recovery |
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| The post-cruise meeting was held on Tahiti. The scarifices we make for science eh! | A beach near Tiarei close to where some of the drilling was done. The surf was pretty bad that day (well that was my excuse anyway). |
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Drowned reefs on the Great Barrier Reef, Southern Surveyor cruise
| An enormous variety of corals enhabit the modern barrier reef as well as other animals such as this giant Tridacna gigas clam | Water sampling through an in-line filter directly from the sampling bottles. |
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An ocenographic transect at 40oS
