{"id":65,"date":"2016-03-04T11:26:58","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T11:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/mysciencecruise\/?p=65"},"modified":"2016-03-04T12:15:08","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T12:15:08","slug":"weve-only-just-begun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/mysciencecruise\/2016\/03\/04\/weve-only-just-begun\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019ve only just begun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s another day at the FS Meteor and although it\u2019s been only 4 days since we left Cape Town &#8211; South Africa &#8211; which is a beautiful place that I have to come back again &#8211; , it feels that we are here for weeks now. I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s the great interaction between everyone or the exhausting hours of work. Either way, let\u2019s face it: with a sunset like this, in Fig. 1, there\u2019s not much to complain. So far we\u2019ve seen whales, dolphins, jellyfishes, a seal having a feast with fishes and some squids last night. The richness of nationalities within this ship gives us a great chance to know the daily routine and behavior of other people\u2019s culture and learn from it. I\u2019ve never thought I would listen to Brazilian music owned by a Greek guy who works in Germany for over 50 years.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_67\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-67\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/mysciencecruise\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/03\/Sunset-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"Sunset somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/mysciencecruise\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/03\/Sunset-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/mysciencecruise\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/03\/Sunset.jpg 655w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-67\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sunset somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As I said we are now on our fourth day at sea and with more than 5000 meter layer of water below us, we\u2019ve been doing underway casts of XBT and uCTD constantly, besides stations of CTD every now and then. And that\u2019s only my physical oceanographer view. So much more is happening every minute that we can\u2019t keep up to all of it. Personally, my project includes evaluate the sea water masses through our path from Africa to South America and, from a numerical ocean modeler point of view it has been an afraid, yet great challenge to work with raw in situ data. Besides this is my first chance to actually put my hands into work to prepare and deploy the instruments, which so far it\u2019s my favorite part!<\/p>\n<p>One thing that really called my attention is how careful the crew is with our well being. The security protocols really do their job, everything is so clean, they are really available to sane all of our questions, the food is absolutely delicious and the ship really have everything to assure you are well taken care of. As you probably know, we are heading to Rio de Janeiro &#8211; Brazil and we are expecting to get there by March 18th. While I\u2019m heading home, most of the cruisers don\u2019t know Rio and I hope they can have a wonderful time at my city. To hear more from us, stay tuned daily for posts of the FS Meteor M124 cruise.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/portal.geomar.de\/web\/mysciencecruise\/livia-sancho\">L\u00edvia Sancho<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s another day at the FS Meteor and although it\u2019s been only 4 days since we left Cape Town &#8211; South Africa &#8211; which is a beautiful place that I have to come back again &#8211; , it feels that we are here for weeks now. I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s the great interaction between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":66,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/mysciencecruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/mysciencecruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/mysciencecruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/mysciencecruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/mysciencecruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/mysciencecruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/mysciencecruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/74"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/mysciencecruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/mysciencecruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/mysciencecruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/mysciencecruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}