by George Matsumoto | Apr 11, 2025 | South Atlantic 2025
First day at sea! We have officially been at sea for a whole day. This blog has some information about what I have been up to. ; We have officially been at sea for a whole day! we left around 9:00 PM on April 9th, and for three days before that, I explored Montevideo,...
by George Matsumoto | Apr 11, 2025 | Indian 2025
First float deployments The first BGC-Argo floats have been deployed from the R/V Thompson I09N ; On April 5th and 9th, we deployed our first two BGC-Argo floats! Everything went very smoothly for Floater the Explorer and Sakai Coho 2, adopted by Mission High School...
by George Matsumoto | Apr 5, 2025 | Indian 2025
The Amazing Shrinking Styrofoam Cup: A Deep-Sea Physics Adventure Ever wondered what happens when you send a regular cup to the bottom of the ocean? ; 🎯 What’s the Experiment? Oceanographers (a.k.a. sea scientists) sometimes attach styrofoam cups to a piece of...
by George Matsumoto | Mar 30, 2025 | Indian 2025
Deploy, recover, sample, deploy... A day in the life of a CTD Watchstander ; By the time I started my PhD program, I had decided that field work and chemistry labs weren’t for me. I was content to sit at home in Colorado and study the ocean from afar with my computer....
by George Matsumoto | Mar 28, 2025 | South Atlantic 2025
Paige McKay An introduction to Paige ; Hi! My name is Paige McKay, and I am currently a second-year undergraduate at the University of Washington School of Oceanography. I work as a lab tech at the UW Argo Float Lab and have been building, testing, and shipping Argo...
