Are we allowed to to take samples in Greenland?*

Me and Claire at the bow of the Armstrong 

Hello all! This is Thanda and on day 12 of our cruise I am reporting to you from Greenland! After many days of speculation about the weather, our quest for a spare part for the rosette is finally complete at the Prince Christian Sound.

Ellen handing us the rosette piece

Ever since we realized that the CTD rosette was not functioning properly early on in the cruise, it has been up in the air about whether or not we were going to get it fully operational again. There were talks between our Chief Scientist Sheri White, our Master Derek Bregeron, the SSSG techs Chris Seaton and Amy Simoneau, and people back at WHOI about the part we needed and how to get it out here. With the weather forecast changing everyday and people at WHOI being four hours behind us, it was never clear on if we were going to be going to Greenland or not, but here we are. We got into Greenland’s waters two nights ago and spent yesterday riding up the sound trying to find a good rendezvous point to meet up with Ellen, the person who works at WHOI who volunteered to travel to Greenland to bring us the rosette piece. Today, bright and early in the morning, Ellen arrived alongside the Armstrong in a small boat that she had chartered to bring her to us from Nanortalik, we got the part that we needed, we gave Ellen a thank you gift bag, and we were on our way out. Now we are off back to the mooring sites for a day full of CTD casts to get enough data to calibrate our mooring and glider sensors before we make the transit home!                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

Greenland!

Me chilln with a berg

Despite the heavy winds and rain, Greenland is hands down the most gorgeous place I have ever been to. While this post is to give an update about the CTD rosette, I mostly just wanted to post beautiful pictures of Greenland.

Signing off,

Thanda

*No, we did not take any samples in Greenland because to take samples within 12 nautical miles of another county, you need to have prior clearance, and since we did not have that clearance, we did not take any samples

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