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ESR research scientist Michael Town is off to Troll Station with the Norwegian Polar Institute to install equipment for the Integrated Cloud Observatory (ICO) which is part of the part of the Troll Observing Network (TONe). Find out more about this … Read More
ESR is proud to announce that Laurie Padman, ESR’s President, has been elected as an American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fellow, joining a distinguished group of 54 individuals in the 2024 Class of Fellows! AGU, the world’s largest Earth and space … Read More
The multi-institutional team of the US GO-SHIP A13.5 repeat hydrography cruise are on board the R/V Langseth. Follow along as the A13.5 team, including ESR’s Jesse Anderson (A13.5 co-Chief Scientist), complete a survey of the eastern South Atlantic Ocean. … Read More
ESR’s Laurie Padman was a co-author on a recently published paper that describes how tidal currents in the Arctic Ocean create large high-frequency internal waves that cause ocean mixing. The paper was motivated by data he and colleagues collected … Read More
Watch as ESR’s Julian Schanze explains the “Salinity Snake”, a ship-mounted instrument that measures conditions within the top inch of the ocean surface. He is currently aboard the R/V Woldstad in the Arctic using the Salinity Snake to collect data … Read More
The Salinity Snake is at it again: As part of NASA’s SASSIE field campaign, ESR Scientist Julian Schanze is in the Arctic Ocean measuring surface salinity using the Salinity Snake. This measures salinity at the same depth as observed by … Read More
As part of NASA’s SASSIE (Salinity and Stratification at the Sea Ice Edge) experiment, the R/V Woldstad will depart for the Beaufort Gyre from Nome, AK on Sept. 5th. ESR scientist Julian Schanze will be on board! Take a look … Read More
The Salinity and Stratification at the Sea Ice Edge (SASSIE) team has just begun a comprehensive, three-month data collection mission to the Arctic Ocean. A fleet of Wave Gliders was just deployed in the Beaufort Sea. The goal of this … Read More
Today, ESR celebrates the 30th anniversary of Ice Station Weddell (ISW), a US-Russian ice camp set up from the Russian ship Akademik Fedorov onto a multiyear drifting ice floe near 71.4oS in the western Weddell Sea. ESR’S Laurie Padman was … Read More