Fieldwork

Upcoming

Oct-Nov 2024: Sea ice camp K892 (~ 5.5 weeks), McMurdo Sound, Ross Sea

Jan-Feb 2025: RV Tangaroa (TAN2502, 6 weeks): western Ross Sea between Victoria Land and Ross Island

Completed

Jan-Mar 2024: RV Laura Bassi (36 days), Ross Ice Shelf, eastern and northwestern Ross Sea, Tasks: Zooplankton collection with nets and the Continuous Plankton Recorder. Assisting with drone flights, water sampling, and acoustic calibrations. More information here.

Jan-Feb 2023: RV Tangaroa (TAN2302, 45 days), northwestern coast and continental shelf in the Ross Sea, Tasks: Sample collection with nets, the ship’s underway system, and the Continuous Plankton Recorder. More information here.

Oct-Nov 2022: Sea ice camp K892 (36 days), McMurdo Sound, Tasks: Sampling of the platelet and sea ice, as well as the water column at two different process sites, biological sample processing, assistance with physical and oceanographic measurements.

May 2022: RV Investigator (IN2023_V03, 12 days), Subantarctic Southern Ocean, Tasks: CTD deployments and water filtration for POC/PON and pigments, eDNA sampling, Argo float deployment. More information here.

Dec 2020 - Jan 2021: RV Investigator (IN2020_V08, 42 days), Subantarctic and Polar Frontal Zone south of Australia, SOLACE (Southern Ocean Large Area Carbon Export) voyage, Tasks: Processing micronekton from the RMT, collection of zooplankton with nets, respiration, decomposition and faecal pellet incubations with copepods, salps, and amphipods. More information here.

Mar 2020: RV Investigator (IN2020_T01), CAPSTAN voyage to train students in various oceanographic and biological sampling methods, joining the ship as teacher for plankton sampling, but the voyage was cancelled while we were still in port, due to the COVID-19 pandemic and following lockdown in Australia.

Jan 2020 - Feb 2020: RV Umitaka-maru (UM-19-08, 28 days), Southern Ocean on a transect from Fremantle, Australia, south to the ice edge and returning to Hobart, Australia. Tasks: Processing micronekton and zooplankton from the ORI, VMPS, and MOHT net, respiration and decomposition incubation trials with Antarctic copepods, and ice sampling. More information here.

Aug 2019: RV Umitaka-maru (UM-19-06, 7 days), Hakodate to Tokyo, Tasks: training in using various nets and other gear to be used on the Antarctic voyage.

Mar 2019: RV Investigator (IN2019_V02, 22 days), Subantarctic Southern Ocean, Tasks: Sampling of zooplankton, in particular pyrosomes, and performing decomposition and sinking experiments, as well as water sampling for POC/PN. More information here.

Sep - Oct 2018: RV Investigator (IN2018_V04, 27 days), East Australian Current and subantarctic Southern Ocean, Tasks: Zooplankton sampling with nets, sinking and decomposition experiments with copepod carcasses, supervision of Master’s student. Read the publication here.

Mar 2018: RV Investigator (IN2018_V02, 18 days), Subantarctic Southern Ocean, Tasks: Zooplankton sampling with nets, CTD sampling for gases and nutrients, testing of zooplankton incubations and carbon flux measurements (faecal pellet production, respiration, decomposition).

More to follow.