Fuel

Taking on about 200,000 gallons of bunker diesel from the fuel truck takes most of a day!

We are a delayed leaving by a couple of days; but, as soon as the coring systems and the winch are ready, we’ll be off.

Coring equipment…

This is a bit of a beauty shot of our new line for the piston core. Stay tuned, this line is quite important to our work on this cruise.

Food!

You need a lot of onions for 47 days at sea! And a lot of help getting them loaded,

Everything seems big on a ship!

Check out this big wrench, and the big blue block. The block is what helps us run rope and wire over the side to deploy our coring equipment!

Loading begins!

Big stuff, like this container, gets loaded on by crane…then lots of boxes get moved around by people.

Team bonding in Perth before the cruise! #Crocca-2s

Off we go…

Packing is my super power!

Crocca-2s: South Indian Ocean Cruise

Getting everything ready to leave for 47 days at sea on the Crocca-2s expedition! Our name Crocca-2s stands for Coring to Reconstruct Ocean Circulation and Carbon-dioxide Across 2 Seas.

We set sail from Perth, Australia on Nov. 4th! Everything about working in the South Indian Ocean has the potential to be challenging, but the team is excited!

Getting ready to leave for the Southern Ocean…sailing on the Thomas G Thompson.

Tengchong Hotsprings, Yunnan Province China

Stay tuned – I leave January 2nd for two weeks of reconnaisance and preliminary sampling of hotsprings in southwestern China!  I will be traveling with a team of researchers from UNLV, NAU, Montana State, San Francisco State, Ohio University, and the University of Georgia. We’ll be working with Chinese collaborators from Tongji University, China University of Geosciences – Beijing, and Yunnan University.

This is a highly-collaborative project with the aim of conducting integrated research into the geochemistry and geobiology of terrestrial hydrothermal systems.