Saturday 5 January 2008 à 18:08
Nostalgia!
Stéphanie Pavoine. Based in Dumont D’Urville station
Hello. I am Stéphanie Pavoine. I am a fisheries engineer by training and I have just spent a year over-wintering at the Dumont D’Urville station.
Saturday 5 January 2008 à 16:05
Position of Astrolabe at 07:52 UTC
Anne Goffart. Correspondent aboard the Astrolabe
66° 00 S
140° 15 E.
Saturday 5 January 2008 à 13:50
Algae on ice!
Sophie Mouge. Correspondent aboard the Aurora Australis
Today we’re sailing near a large tabular iceberg about twenty meters high.
Saturday 5 January 2008 à 13:45
Data for the Aurora Australis at 12h30
Sophie Mouge. Correspondent aboard the Aurora Australis
Position of the icebreaker:
- latitude: 65°49.519' S
- longitude: 143°00.209’ E
Wind:
- direction: E-SE
- speed: 11 knots
Water temperature: -0.5°C
Air temperature: -0.8°C
Atmospheric pressure: 985 hPa
Relative humidity: 85%
UV-B: 1.8 W/m²
Water depth: 540 meters
Sunrise: above the horizon all day
Saturday 5 January 2008 à 13:40
Position of Aurora Australis
Sophie Mouge. Correspondent aboard the Aurora Australis
FROM: Martin Riddle
DATE: 05/01/08
REPORT (SITREP) NO.: 320
UNIVERSAL TIME: 0100
LOCAL (SHIP) TIME: 1200
AUSTRALIAN EASTERN STANDARD TIME: 1200
POSITION: -66 50S, 142 28E
HEADING: 340T
CURRENT SPEED (KNOTS): 2.5
DISTANCE TO NEXT WAYPOINT (NAUTICAL MILES): N/A
DISTANCE COVERED LAST 24
HOURS (NAUTICAL MILES): 105.9
WEATHER CONDITIONS: Clouds, moderate
visibility, wind decreasing 14 kts from 125T with gusts to 16 kts
AIR
TEMPERATURE: -1
SEA TEMPERATURE: -0.5
SEA CONDITIONS: Moderate seas from SE,
moderate WNW swell 2-3 m
ICE CONDITIONS: Isolated bergs, occasional growlers
and bergy bits, otherwise open water.
REMARKS: We completed sampling the main circuit of eastern CEAMARC benthic
sites yesterday at about 2100 hrs last night and then returned to the
Polynya moorings to move the Pole Compass. The Polyna moorings are measuring
the speed and direction of water currents through the water column using
Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCP), but at this distance from the
South Magnetic Pole (only about 135 miles WNW of the moorings) normal
compasses are not accurate. The Pole Compass is designed to give accurate
readings even when very close to the magnetic pole and will be positioned
alongside each of the ADCP Polynya moorings for a few days in order to allow
correction of the data from their simpler onboard compasses. The Pole
Compass was redeployed by about 0500 this morning and then CEAMARC sampling
resumed with the first of four sites (400m, 800m, 1600m and 2400m) in a
transect over the edge of the shelf break.
Regards, Martin and Sarah.
