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They are microscopic, exhibit funky shapes and wear many different colours. Welcome to the amazing world of phytoplankton!

Polyacrylamide gels are providing a sneak peek at who’s responsible for exporting carbon to the ocean’s interior.

Two of the main workhorse instruments on board are the CTD and the Triaxus. The information obtained by these two instruments helps the SOLACE team make important calls on the suitability of a site for a longer term multi-week occupation.

Christmas on the SOLACE research voyage turned out to be a real cracker.

An IMAS PhD student and first time voyager gives an honest and up front account of her first three weeks on board RV Investigator.

A nomadic scientist’s reflections of home, from the remote Southern Ocean.

We successfully completed our occupation of the subantarctic SOLACE site late on Sunday 20 December and are currently headed south-west towards a diatom-dominated polar site to commence our southern occupation.

Micronekton are free-swimming pelagic animals around 2-20 cm in size and make up an important trophic link in the marine food web.

Researchers on board RV Investigator had a very exciting catch on the SOLACE voyage in the subantarctic Southern Ocean! Pyrosomes of the species Pyrosoma atlanticum landed in our last Rectangular Midwater Trawl that we towed through the upper 200 m of the water column.

In the last few days there has been little time to post any blogs on the SOLACE www site as most groups on board RV Investigator have been busy processing samples from midwater nets, bio-optics, deep water cameras, zooplankton nets, sediment traps, particle interceptors, and/or running experiments.