August 16th Fog, Icebergs, and Rough Seas

Today the sun is gone. We spent the day crawling through thick fog and dodging huge icebergs (very slowly!). As we write this in the mess (the dining area), the ship is rolling on a rough sea. Today the morning shift deployed CTDs, nets, and took water samples across the mouth of Kangerlussuaq fjord again to see if the recent storm has affected the water properties that enter the fjord. The afternoon shift prepared the mooring for deploying tomorrow, by attaching instruments to the rope in the pouring rain and fog while we passed by massive icebergs.

Fingers crossed for fair seas tomorrow for mooring deployment day!

The ECR-team and Julia Muchowski, ECS-program Coordinator