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ISB in Antarctica: Cruise Tracks & Cornhole

By Allison Lee

To keep morale high on the ship we busted out Cards Against Humanity and Cornhole Tournaments…

Here is an image of our cruise tracks. We’ve been following locations of deep water, high algae production waters, and low pCO2 waters. The last couple of days we’ve been drifting with the ice. Last night, we had some icebergs attack us. The surface ice we are drifting with is blown by the wind but icebergs move with the water currents. They plow through anything. Note the wind chill temperature!

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