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.

Preparing to lower the CTD on Lance.	Amongst the ice floes off East Greenland.	Jeremy taking a pancake sample 1.
Jeremy taking a pancake sample 2.	Peter and Pia.	Me with Lance in the background.
Jeremy throwing a measuring stick overboard to get pancake diameter.	Using the pancake lifter to get a sample.	Inga.
The Ice Team on Lance 2001. From left to right: Inga, me, Jeremy, Peter, Pia, Vladimir (NPI) and the Captain.
At the entrance to Ice Fjord, Spitsbergen we came across a walrus sitting on a floe.
View from the crow's nest, Lance.	Peter and me in Longyearbyen.

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

Current:
  IRIS
  EUROCLIM
  Research Cruises
  Upward-Looking Sonar
  IceCam
Past:
  CONVECTION
  AICSEX
  Upward-Looking Sonar (NSF)
Ancient History:
  The Humber Observatory
  EnTec Energy Consultants

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