Robot gliders cruise the currents
Three underwater gliders are released into the world’s strongest water flow, the high-energy Antarctic Circumpolar Current
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The FOCUS 42.2 marine marathon
What to do when a mad-keen trail-runner is on a research ship for 38 days? Run a marathon on a treadmill, of course!
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The CTD: What goes down, must come up
One item in our oceanographic toolkit gets more of a workout than others. Which is it and what does it tell us about the deep ocean?
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Meet Hydrochem: our floating lab
At the heart of this science ship is an advanced analytical lab for measuring the vital signs of the ocean
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For the sheer excitement of being here
PhD student Andie Hay offers her thoughts about life on the high seas – and a poem
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Living the oceanographic dream
PhD student Polina Sholeninova about her experience living and working at sea on the FOCUS voyage
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From big things, little things grow
Why are we studying a patch of the Southern Ocean just 100km wide and 200km long so intensively?
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How to build a tall mooring
Crew and scientists on CSIRO research vessel RV Investigator install an oceanographic ‘weather tower’ in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current
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We’re in the zone
The FOCUS voyage has now reached our survey area about 850 nautical miles south of Hobart (or 200nm west of Macquarie Island, halfway between Tasmania and Antarctica).
Deep-sea diving probe recovered from Southern Ocean
A state-of-the-art robotic float has been recovered from the Southern Ocean, in a first for CSIRO research vessel Investigator.
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