one year since ISPOL

I just realized that it has by now been a year since we left Cape Town for the ISPOL expedition, a 3-month scientific cruise to the central Weddell Sea - and I still have not posted a single pic to my website! Well, here are some appetizers:



Here you see our sea ice team from my institute. Our boss (middle) also happened to be the scientific cruise leader.



As soon as we arrived, we were under constant surveillance. Every piece of equipment was inspected thoroughly.



We did some diving there - that's how I usually get my stuff done - and this is a nice action shot of the team ;-)



Another action shot;-) That seal is about 3.5m long and had some big nasty teeth!
Later she came by (it was a big female) and showed me - while we both in the water.
Unfortunately, I could not repay the favour due to the big full-face mask (see pic above).

So as soon as I got these and a lot more pics properly set up on my homepage I will put up another post about it.