From: Haley Smith Kingsland, Stanford University, and Emily Kehrt, U.S. Coast Guard
Researchers working on the ice during one of our last ice stations. (Photo by Haley Smith Kingsland)
Plankton images Sam Laney’s Imaging FlowCytobot collected: 1.5 million
Meal plates served on the mess deck: 12,900
Gallons of water made: 7,937
Nautical miles traveled: 5,430
CTD rosette water sampling bottles closed: 1,172
Coffee drinks sold in the ship store: 500
Science deployments: 366
Bottom depth at deepest science station (meters): 305
CTD rosette casts: 158
Science stations: 140
New “polar bears” initiated: 51
Days underway: 37
Mustaches grown/maintained for competition: 31
Bottom depth at shallowest science station (meters): 22
Days with more than five hours of “foggy” skies: 16
Ice stations: 12
Polar bears sighted: 7
Sunsets: 5