Photography, cruises and Exhibitions

This year I joined the RRS James Cook for the
last in a series of Oceanographic cruise to the
MId Atlantic Ridge. This year we sail from St Johns in Canada and work the ridge from north to south
finally ending up in Vigo in Spain
This was my 5th visit to the ridge!
ECOMAR is funded by NERC and coordinated by
Oceanlab at the University of Aberdeen.

• Preparation

  (Tue, 16 Aug 2011 10:47:19 +0100)

  I have been planning and packing my equipment for the cruise which departs from Cape Town at the beginning of November. A long way off and difficult to decide what I might need for a trip 3 months away. Also what I can do without.
  I think I will get a better idea of what is involved after meeting people on Friday

• Video success

  (Sun, 29 Aug 2010 10:08:59 +0100)

  
  
   
  
   
  Back at last but after a successful time at sea.  Getting to grips with the ROV camera and hopefully achieving what we went for.  We had aspirations about what we might find on the sea floor but were not expecting to find what we did.  There are always thoughts that we might find new species, but this time we did.  The highlight in this are has to be the enteropneusts, the acorn worms or so-called missing links.  These are fragile animals which have never been collected intact.  But we not only achieved this...

• James Cook

  (Sun, 29 Aug 2010 10:05:16 +0100)

  
   
  It is less than 2 weeks now before the ?Big Event? to the Mid Atlantic Ridge.
  Hopefully the Ash Cloud will stay away long enough for us to get to St Johns in Canada to join the ship.  Most of my gear has already gone but I am still getting the final bits and pieces and tying up loose ends before I go. 
  
  OceanLab has created a new blog page which will be updated daily by scientists on board.
  http://ecomar2010.wordpress.com/