Greetings from Maine!  I think everyone has made it back home now following our 3-day off-loading extravaganza in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada.  While some of our science party were able to get off of the ship and go exploring the coast (check out this awesome photo of the coast taken by the Videographer Michael Brown), [Read the Rest...]

Greetings from the North Atlantic!  By the time you read this, our ship will have just arrived in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada, to disembark from the expedition, and I’ll be in the midst of helping the deck crew to unload all of our scientific equipment for shipment back home.  Last night was a really bumpy [Read the Rest...]

Greetings from North Pond!  We are in the midst of our final dive operations of our expedition, and I am happy to report that things have been going really well!  We were able to successfully deploy all of the landers and instruments and hardware that we brought with us, which is really good news. Considering [Read the Rest...]

Greetings from 22 degrees N and 46 degrees W.  The North Pond Adventure Club has been on station since Friday, and the weather has been most excellent for ROV Jason operations (if the seas are too rough, we can’t put the ROV in the water).  We are steadily checking off priority objectives from our task [Read the Rest...]

Greetings from the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, land lovers.  Our band of adventurers finally set sail (or, fired up the engines on the Merian research vessel from Germany) on Friday evening, leaving the port of Grand Bahama behind in our wake.  Since then, we’ve been steady cruising almost due east at about 12 knots [Read the Rest...]