Antarctic Blue-Water Sailing
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Antarctic Blue-Water Sailing

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Posted June 4, 2018

Image: Ted Blanco / Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observations and Modeling project (SOCCOM)"

A wave breaks into the Baltic Room--which provides access to launch and retrieve instruments--aboard the R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer during a 2017 research cruise of the NSF funded Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observations and Modeling - SOCCOM.

SOCCOM focuses on determining the influences of Antarctica's Southern Ocean on global climate: https://soccom.princeton.edu/content/overview