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RV Lance 2001

In 2001 a couple of weeks after the RV Jan Mayen cruise I went to sea on the Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI) research vessel RV Lance. This was the first official cruise of the EC CONVECTION project.

Lance CTD

Preparing to lower the CTD on Lance.


Amongst the ice

Amongst the ice floes off East Greenland.


Perfect pancake 1

Jeremy taking a pancake sample 1.


Perect pancake 2

Jeremy taking a pancake sample 2.


Peter and Pia

Peter and Pia.


Nick and Lance

Me with Lance in the background.


Throwing the stick

Jeremy throwing a measuring stick overboard to get pancake diameter.


Pancake lift

Using the pancake lifter to get a sample.


Inga

Inga.


Ice team

The Ice Team on Lance 2001. From left to right: Inga, me, Jeremy, Peter, Pia, Vladimir (NPI) and the Captain.


Walrus 1

At the entrance to Ice Fjord, Spitsbergen we came across a walrus sitting on a floe.


Walrus 2

Walrus 3

View from crow's nest

View from the crow's nest, Lance.


Peter and Nick

Peter and me in Longyearbyen.


Page created by Nick Hughes, 21-xi-2004.
Page update by Nick Hughes, 16-iv-2006.