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That's a wrap

The field work portion of the CODA project is coming to an end. After years of planning and preparations dotted with short trips to...

Oct 12, 2020

Meet the team: Lucia Hošeková

Lucia is a postdoctoral research associate from Slovakia that is working closely with Jim on the CODA project. She is spunky and...

Sep 24, 2020

So much has to go right

The CODA science team is finally at their first science stop! 23 days after the expedition started (14 days of quarantine and 9 days of...

Sep 23, 2020

And they're off!

After 14 days of quarantining in a hotel in Seward, Alaska, the 4-person CODA science team received negative test results and the...

Sep 14, 2020

With three days to go, what does life look like?

What would you be doing in the days before leaving to be at sea for six weeks? Our scientists offer a little peak into their days of prep

Aug 27, 2020

Meet the team: Jim Thomson

Dr. Jim Thomson is the head honcho (or, in science research lingo, the "Principal Investigator"). He is a gifted Oceanographer at the...

Aug 19, 2020

Remember when?

Do you remember when we dropped big sea-spider-looking tripods off of the back of the R/V Sikuliaq in the icy dark of last November? For...

Aug 14, 2020

Meet the team: Nirni Kumar

Nirni was one of the lead scientists with the CODA project aboard the Sikuliaq. He is a wiz at translating raw data into climate models....

Jan 31, 2020

Live on King 5

Seattle learned more about the CODA project this week with this King 5 news piece by Glenn Farley. We wanted to share it here too.

Jan 23, 2020

Meet the team: Kristina Kunz

Kristina was part of the GoWest team, analyzing the polar cod that came up in the SUIT net and their food sources. Background Questions...

Jan 8, 2020

The tale of two orange squiggles

Happy 2020! May this be the year of major climate action and terrible optometry jokes. To get the year started, I’d like to tell you the...

Jan 2, 2020

Scientists don't know everything...?

Have you ever met a doctor and spontaneously asked them about your recently injured shoulder, only to be met by a blank stare and a...

Dec 18, 2019

little fish in a big net

According to Franz, polar bears are really just repackaged arctic cod. Polar bears eat seals and seals eat arctic cod. These little fish...

Dec 13, 2019

Meet the team: Hauke Flores

Hauke Flores and Franz Mueter led the GoWest team, onboard the Sikuliaq to study arctic cod (also called polar cod). These fish are found...

Dec 6, 2019

A stormy icescape

In the arctic autumn, as the sun disappears under the horizon, the dark days quickly zap heat from the air. That cold air then starts to...

Dec 2, 2019

Meet the team: Franz Mueter

When the scientists were not busy doing very important science work, I asked each of them to fill out a little questionnaire, so that we...

Nov 29, 2019

A Sikuliaq walking tour

As a follow up to my last article detailing the ship, I wanted to share this fun 5-minute "walking tour" video we made. Enjoy!

Nov 25, 2019

What about the vessel?

The 26 scientists aboard the Sikuliaq are, by choice, spending the month of November above the arctic circle. The sun has now officially...

Nov 24, 2019

From calm to washing machine

Our whole world is about to get thrown about. For the last 8 days, we have been pushing through new sea ice forming rapidly along the...

Nov 20, 2019

Confounding strings of letters

“Hey Jim, based on the latest GOFS we want to send down the LISST on the shelf, but first we need to cast the CTD from the CHUMP. Will...

Nov 18, 2019