Our Voyage, by the Numbers

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