FramStrait2019

It has been a real privilege to be here in this environment, and to sample the ecosystem while surrounded by the incredible beauty and ...

It's Radical! And by that I mean: surreal, beautiful, bizarre, grotesque, poetic, and a bit sketchy. When we embark on our daily mission...

For the past few days we have managed to make it onto 3 ice floes (thin slabs of sea ice) suitable for our scientific needs. We have been...

Today marks the end of the first half of the research cruise and I have begun my two-day long trip back to North Carolina. Participating...

Day one in the midnight sun. Leaving Port and heading to the ice edge was quite an exciting moment, finally we get do so some SCIENCE!...

Day 1: Our travel to Svalbard began at the ILM airport with the first of 5 (pretty exhausting) flights to get to our destination. For a...

Andrew Castagno is a graduate student in Marine Science at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. He is interested in...

Mattias is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the School of Oceanography at the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle, WA. Ever since his...

Dr. Heather Koopman is a Professor of Animal Physiology in the Department of Biology and Marine Biology at UNCW - and since 2017, she has...

Elizabeth Bailey is an undergraduate student at UNCW studying oceanography and physics. She will be responsible for launching a Castaway...

Conner Lester is an undergraduate physics major at UNCW with aspirations of pursuing a PhD after graduating. He is doing his senior...

Hillary Glandon is a post doctoral scientist at UNCW studying the diving physiology of marine mammals. She is excited to be going to the...

Till Wagner is Assistant Professor at the Department of Physics and Physical Oceanography at the University of North Carolina Wilmington....

The plan is to go North along the Spitzbergen coast for a bit and then traverse Fram Strait following the 79N parallel until we reach the...

We've been busy testing some of the equipment in the Intracoastal Waterway and are getting ready to pack up and leave. From left to...