NBP25-01 Commences Today!

Today the Nathaniel B. Palmer departs Lyttleton, New Zealand to start heading south to the Ross Sea! The science teams have been busy setting up labs and getting ready for science. There are folks from all over on the ship and it's clear that this is going to be an amazing group of collegial and fun people to work with!

In the past, the IcyInverts team has been fairly large with a couple dozen or so scientists but there's only four of us on NBP25-01. We will do our best to post daily updates but that will probably not always be possible and many of them will be short and sweet (but with lots of photos of Antarctic wildlife, folks doing science, and the cool critters that we sample!). We might also coax some of our geologist colleagues into participating to share a bit about their science as well.

Here's a video tour of our lab space - the NBP Hydrolab - where we will be sorting specimens, taking photos, and recording data.

Dr. Kevin Kocot
University of Alabama