ぼっち・ざ・こぶら!
60年前の今日は、ベルAH-1Gヒューイコブラの初飛行日であった。
(※昨年の明野航空祭にて撮影。)
#AH-1 #AH-1S #第5戦闘ヘリコプター隊 #第5戦闘ヘリコプター隊飛行隊 #中部方面航空隊 #中部方面隊 #明野駐屯地 #明野航空祭 #M197 #Hydra_70 #JM261 #BGM-71 #TOW #陸上自衛隊 #後藤ひとり #喜多郁代 #伊地知虹夏 #山田リョウ #ぼっち・ざ・ろっく
Let me tell you more about sediments
GEOMAR - I shell return
Last day in @geomarkiel.bsky.social (for now) as we wrapped up discussions on expedition #M197 and made plans for the future on @www.helmholtz.de project #EMSFORE.
Always great talking to people as excited as me about the past and future of the seas.
Sedimentologists, pretending to be a geochemist, explain physical properties to marine biologists.
Finished a second intensive day of the #EMSFORE workshop in @geomarkiel.bsky.social, discussing initial results from the #M197 cruise. It is rare to integrate oceanography, sedimentology, geophysics, biochemistry, biogeography, and ocean chemistry in such a way.
And once more, the time has come. Everything went into boxes that went into containers, and soon it will be as if we were never here. #M197
One of the hardest and most laborious parts of doing experiments and measurements about the interactions of sediment and water - is getting the sediment out of the water. #M197
If you ever wondered how the #bottom bottommost of the #Medditeranian - let me be of service to you.
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As the #cruise is coming to it's final stages, we are doing more deployments at night, under the glorious light of the #moon as it shines on the water.
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The gleeful joy of turbidity in a bottle as part of one resuspension experiment we are doing onboard.
It's so cool as it swirls!
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And today, on our #MacGyvering session at sea - scraping tools for sediment, as we realized we need more of them.
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It's rather hard to explain how much and in how many ways the ship moves. So, I just used the accelerometer on my phone and phyphoxorg to simply measure our acceleration spectrum.
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To the right, one of our regular caps, to the left - one that came into contact with sulfidic sediment from a mud volcano... now try to imagine what that sediment did to us?
(nothing, we're all good, that is what PPE is for)
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Preparing, loading, and priming the multi-coring system is a bit annoying and tedious. But we won't get any sediments without doing that - and that's what we're out here for.
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After a few rough days, some calm, open sea on #M197, perfect for collecting some #mud (and lots of #pteropods) from the deepest (>3000m) parts of the #Mediterranean Sea.
old man removing water from a pipe
Old man putting mud in a cup
Just in case there was any doubt about it, here is some photographic evidence of me still working as a #sedimentologist (five hours later on that shift, the shift and pants were of a similar color).
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As much as the core looks like a chocolate cake, one should not eat the core (and in my case, also the chocolate cake).
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Long night shifts in #hydroacoustics are a challenge, you have to keep awake, you have to look at the screens every few seconds, and you need to keep sane. Everyone needs to do something to make it through the shift. This time, I'm trying #knitting.
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When you're out at sea, if you forgot to pack something, or something broke - you can't just go to the store and buy a new one. So you just have to make one! Let Angus #MacGyver guide our hands. #M197
Sedimentologist by night, hydroacoustic by day... sleep is for other peple - we got science to do out here!
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Heading out of port and #OutToSea for another research #adventure with expedition #M197 on the R/V Meteor. Off to study eddies and #ClimateChange in the eastern #mediterranean.
All bags are packed (for the third time), but I'm sure I forgot something, as that is always the case, especially when you go #OutToSea.
Expedition #M197 effectively starts today - expect updates!
I may be on my way to fly out and make final preparations for expedition #M197 with the R/V Meteor... or I might not. #ItsComplicated
