The creepy crawly, hairy scary critters from the benthic biological trial voyage!
Posted: April 30, 2015 Filed under: Home | Tags: Australian Museum, Benthic biology trial voyage, Marine National Facility, Museum Victoria, RV Investigator, South Australia Museum, Tasmanian Seamounts, University of Tasmania, University of Western Sydney 1 CommentRV Investigator has been south of Tasmania with a huge team of biologists from around Australia, on the benthic biology trial voyage.
The aim of the voyage was to test the sampling equipment used by benthic scientists and to develop safe handling procedures. Benthic marine science refers to being on and just below the seafloor.
On board were scientists from CSIRO, Museum Victoria, the Australian Museum, the University of Western Sydney, South Australia Museum and the University of Tasmania.
It was an exciting voyage where the weird and wonderful things that live in our oceans were collected from the sea floor and brought on board to be studied.
The words hairy scary, ooey gooey, creepy crawly, blimely slimy come to mind!
Check out the photos and see for yourself!
Check out some of the work that happened on board RV Investigator for the maiden voyage!
Posted: April 27, 2015 Filed under: Home | Tags: Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems CRC, Australian Bureau of Meteorology, CSIRO, Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS), Marine National Facility, RV Investigator Leave a commentThe latest edition of the ACE NEWS – APRIL 2015 is now out and there’s a great little update on the maiden voyage.
Check it out here: http://acecrc.org.au/news/3811/
What’s Investigator been up to?
Posted: April 20, 2015 Filed under: Home | Tags: Benthic, Commissioning voyages, Marine National Facility, Pelagic, RV Investigator 1 CommentAustralia’s new Marine National Facility research vessel, Investigator, is in the middle of undertaking a series of short commissioning year voyages.
These voyages are allowing us to test and commission equipment and to develop safe working and handling procedures.
Two weeks ago the ship was south of Tasmania where the crew and scientists were learning how to deploy the equipment that is used to collect samples from the sea floor, which is known as benthic sampling.
Last week the ship left on voyage that will test the biological pelagic equipment. Pelagic refers to the part of the ocean that is neither near the shore or the bottom.
Check out how scientists on board Investigator can collect samples with nets!
Deploying moorings on RV Investigator’s maiden voyage
Posted: April 13, 2015 Filed under: Home | Tags: ACE CRC, Australian Bureau of Meteorology, CSIRO, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS), Marine National Facility, RV Investigator, Southern Ocean Time Series moorings, University of Tasmania Leave a commentConditions in the Southern Ocean at 47 degrees South were relatively kind to the team that headed off on RV Investigator’s maiden voyage.
The voyage was a collaboration between CSIRO, the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre, the Integrated Marine Observing System, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology and the University of Tasmania’s Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies and it was led by CSIRO’s Professor Tom Trull.
The primary object of the voyage was to deploy a full set of Southern Ocean Time Series moorings, which was achieved by the team on board before the weather turned for the worse.
Check out the photos!
