Worked on the ice yesterday helpling to survey ice thicknesses (measurements every meter for 300 meters on two 300-m lines). Temps have been around -12 to-15C with wind chill at about -40C and blowing snow periodically to obscure. But we got it done.
The pregnant female crabeater seal near the ship has not pupped yet but may today (it's 4th day she has hauled out) so I'm sticking in the ice tower onboard the ship for the day to try to catch the birth on film. Other projects seem to be going well. We are still drifting to the north and are now just north of 70S at 93W. Southwest winds continuing strong this a.m. -bs
Dr. Stewart boarding a gyrocopter in search of whale sharks
Brent Stewart, Ph.D., J.D.
Brent Stewart joined HSWRI as a field biologist in 1977 and has since conducted studies of the population biology, foraging and physiological ecology, and behavior of a variety of marine mammals, sea birds, sea turtles, and sharks. Dr. Stewart’s research expeditions have ranged from Greenland and Iceland in the North Atlantic south to Marion Island in the South Atlantic and Indian Ocean, in Russia's Lake Baikal, from the Beaufort and Bering Seas south through temperate, tropical and equatorial waters in the North Pacific Ocean, and in the Weddell, Amundsen, and Ross Seas of the Antarctic's Southern Ocean. For Brent's complete bio click here.
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