Working on the Polar Star |
from the CBL Cruise 2002 |
Photo credit: University of Washington
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| A map of the Arctic Ocean | Close up of the CTD rosette with the bottles open | CTD on the deck waiting to be deployed. |
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| The CTD gets the go ahead to be deployed. | CTD entering the water. | CTD just below the surface. |
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| CTD emerging from icy water. | Full size Styrofoam cups decorated by students in Barrow, AK ready to take a trip on the CTD. | The cups after traveling to a depth of 3800 meters on the CTD, the cups in the background are full size. |
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| A group of researchers with the CTD. | Gail Grimes takes notes on the samples to make sure all are properly labeled and tracked. | Gail Grimes, our teacher at sea, takes a sample from the CTD. |
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| Ron, our cheif chemist,, taking a sample to test | Taking samples to test the CFC level. | Guy, our CFC expert, testing the CFC level in a sample. |
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| Adding reagents to the sample. | Preparing to deploy a mooring. | Lowering the mooring. The SBE-16 (gray tail) will record the salinity and temperature hourly and the current meter (red tail) will measure current speed and direction. |
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| Lowering the glass floats of the mooring. | A team heads out to retrieve a mooring. | Mooring team at a distance. |
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| Updated: January 30, 2004 | ||