EXPORTS 2018 Cruise Album
From August 9 to September 11, 2018 Café Thorium headed out on the r/v Roger Revelle and the r/v Sally Ride to study carbon cycling in the ocean. Read more about this project on the EXPORTS page but view some of the craziness of processing samples and riding out storms below. Click on the photos to view them larger.
Preparing an NBST for deployment r/v Revelle (Photo courtesy of Alyson Santoro)
Ken and Matt deploying STT on r/v Revelle. Photo by Alyson Santoro.
Recovery of a no-longer-lost trap. (left to right) Ken Buesseler, Meg Estapa and Melissa Omand. r/v Revelle. Photo courtesy of Ken Buesseler
CTD on deck r/v Revelle Photo courtesy of Ken Buesseler
r/v Sally Ride coming our way. Photo courtesy of Ken Buesseler
Pumps ready (photo by Samantha Clevenger)
CTD rises. Photo courtesy of Ken Buesseler
Photo courtesy of Ken Buesseler
Photo courtesy of Ken Buesseler
MOCNESS bucket August 16, day (left) versus night (right).
Photo courtesy of Ken Buesseler
Ken on the r/v Revelle with Sediment Trap.
Cafe Thorium ready to leave on Exports. (left to right) Samantha Clevenger, Muntsa Roca-Marti, Ken Buesseler, Steve Pike.
2L thorium samples being filtered inside the Cafe Thorium lab van. 2018. (Photo by Samantha Clevenger)
Collecting an NBST onto the deck of the r/v Sally Ride. (Photo by Samantha Clevenger)
Collecting an NBST. (Photo by Samantha Clevenger)
Recovered NBST r/v Revelle. Photo courtesy of Ken Buesseler
Spiking samples with Th-230. (Photo by Samantha Clevenger)
Pumps getting ready to be cast overboard. (Photo by Samantha Clevenger)
Muntsa preparing a sample for Pb/Po analysis. (Photo by Samantha Clevenger)
Mounting a filter sample for beta counting. (Photo by Samantha Clevenger)
Laboratory on the Sally Ride.
Inside the Cafe Thorium lab van.
On deck pump storage. Pumps are bolted down to the deck. (Photo by Samantha Clevenger)
Watching the pumps descend. (Photo by Samantha Clevenger)