The adventure begins! 🚢 We’ve officially boarded the #RVInvestigator for the Shipwrecks and Submerged Landscapes Voyage (SSuLV1) and are setting off for Nambucca Head at 8:00 am tomorrow. Excited for the science, the stories, and the sea ahead. 🌊
Seas the opportunity 🚢 Applications for our 2026 CAPSTAN voyages are now open!
This exciting at-sea experience for university students & trainers is all happening aboard CSIRO's research vessel #RVInvestigator, with two voyage opportunities in 2026.
Apply now: www.csiro.au/capstan
I am super excited to share this week’s episode of TWICS, featuring my incredible PhD supervisor Rebecca Carey! She talks all about her past volcano adventures and we discuss her upcoming voyage to study the aftermath of the 2022 Hunga Tonga eruption onboard CSIRO’s #RVInvestigator 🌋
Get your research on RV Investigator!
CSIRO is inviting Australian researchers to apply for fully funded grants of sea time on #RVInvestigator in 2027-28 for projects of national benefit.
Find out more and apply at mnf.csiro.au
The RV Investigator heading out this morning.
The #RVInvestigator heading down the Derwent River this morning.
Had a grand view of #rvinvestigator rounding the Tasman Peninsula from the cliffs at Mt Brown
Celebrating 10 yrs of RV Investigator! 🛳️🧪🥳
After over 100 voyages, Investigator has contributed to oceanography & atmospheric science around Australia, the Southern Ocean, & Antarctica. I've been lucky to participate in & assist with some of these
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🌊🇦🇶 Review of the oceanography of Cape Darnley region of east Antarctica. One of the few places around Antarctica that dense shelf water that forms Antarctic bottom water. Very proud of my student Sienna, her first publication of her PhD. Part of the CANYONS project on the #RVInvestigator.
🚢🌊 Long lap: “like driving between Sydney and Perth three times, at a max speed of 20 kmh.” An epic #MISO voyage of 60 days and 12000 km on CSIRO #RVInvestigator lands one of the most comprehensive datasets ever collected from the Southern Ocean.
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After 55 days at sea and almost 3000 samples, our GEOTRACES team on the #MISO voyage aboard CSIRO #RVInvestigator have sampled trace metals across thousands of kilometres of the Southern Ocean from #Antarctica to Australia.
Read more ▶️ aappartnership.org.au/trace-metal-...
Our #MISO voyagers have created a miniature SouthernOcean
aboard CSIRO research vessel #RVInvestigator, to explore the amazing links between phytoplankton biology and cloud formation.
Read more 🦠↔️🌨️ aappartnership.org.au/a-miso-soup-...
📷 C Traill, R Strzepek
"I’ve been trying to discover how the Southern Ocean works and what it means for climate for 40 years. We’ve learned a huge amount in that time." — Dr Steve Rintoul, AAPP/CSIRO oceanographer, about our current #MISO voyage on #RVInvestigator
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photo: Knut Heinatz
Every day is UN #WomenInScience day for the MISO voyage aboard CSIRO research vessel #RVInvestigator.
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Julia Neme from @ccrc.bsky.social loves her 'once-in-a-lifetime' opportunity to travel with the frozen giants of the south on our #MISO voyage aboard @CSIRO research vessel #RVInvestigator. Read her story and check out the iceberg photos at aappartnership.org.au/in-the-land-...
📷 Knut Heinatz
Le 17/01/2024, le patrouilleur polaire L'#Astrolabe a porté assistance au #RVInvestigator, un navire scientifique armé par l'institut australien #CSIRO, après que celui-ci s'est retrouvé cerné par les glaces au large du glacier Mertz.
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Our #MISO voyage on CSIRO #RVInvestigator is sampling vanishingly low concentrations of trace metals, to understand what controls Southern Ocean biology and its links to the carbon cycle and climate.
READ THE BLOG ▶️ aappartnership.org.au/tracing-the-...
To track super-cooled water flowing from under an ice shelf, the #MISO voyage on CSIRO #RVInvestigator sampled around the Mertz Glacier Tongue in east #Antarctica — and enjoyed a spectacular icescape.
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(photo: Knut Heinatz, Chris Traill)
From space to the seafloor, the Australian and international FOCUS voyage on CSIRO #RVInvestigator has mapped a highly energetic ‘hotspot’ in the world’s strongest current simultaneously by ship and satellite, and uncovered an underwater mountain range.
▶️ aappartnership.org.au/oceanography...
We've deployed two EM-APEX floats from the FOCUS voyage on CSIRO #RVInvestigator (thanks University of Washington!). What are they and what do they tell us about the changing Southern Ocean?
▶️ Watch and read Dr Helen Phillips of AAPP/ @utas.bsky.social at aappartnership.org.au/temperature-...
The Hottest 100, cracked the ton, done a hunge. Today marks CTD💯, a huge effort by the teams on CSIRO #RVInvestigator for the FOCUS voyage.
Q: what is a CTD?
A: aappartnership.org.au/the-ctd-what...
📷 Amelia Pearson
'Death glares' from giant petrels, squadrons of great cormorants, fly-bys from fulmars, A-list of albatross: never a shortage of seabirds in the Southern Ocean spotted on CSIRO #RVInvestigator
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📷 A. Pearson, A. Hay
🌀 On CSIRO #RVInvestigator we're looking at how swirling eddies shift heat, carbon, oxygen and nutrients between the surface and the depths. But what about phytoplankton and microbes, energy superheroes of the Southern Ocean?
Read on ⚡🦸♀️ aappartnership.org.au/snap-frozen-...
📷 L. Brokensha
🛰️ Our FOCUS voyage in the Southern Ocean on CSIRO #RVInvestigator has released three underwater gliders into the world's strongest current. Luna Bai from Caltech tells us how and why.
🌀 Watch the video youtu.be/s8kHKYaxcD0
🌊 Read the story aappartnership.org.au/robot-glider...
⏳ When the CTD instrument goes to about 4000m depth to start collecting seawater, the round trip takes a while with stops every 100m or so. What do teams do in-between on CSIRO #RVInvestigator?
💦 See more about the CTD and #FOCUS voyage at aappartnership.org.au/the-ctd-what-goes-down-must-come-up/
The key to any oceanographic research is knowing what's in the seawater you're sampling — especially dissolved oxygen, nutrients and salinity. Enter the hydrochem team on #science ship CSIRO #RVInvestigator.
🧪⚗️ aappartnership.org.au/meet-hydroch...
Wrote about my life and thoughts during FOCUS voyage on #RVInvestigator in the Southern Ocean. Check it out!
"More than 2 weeks since we boarded CSIRO #RVInvestigator. It took some time to adjust to the environment: a constantly moving and rolling ship, 12-hour shifts from 2am-2pm, working closely with new people..." — PhD student Polina about life on the high seas
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"11 times the height of Eiffel Tower": scientists and crew on CSIRO research vessel #RVInvestigator build an oceanographic 'weather tower' in the #Antarctic Circumpolar Current.
Video and photos at aappartnership.org.au/how-to-build...
Boarding #RVInvestigator today which will become my home for 5 weeks. Our crew will head to the Southern Ocean to collect small-scale data of one of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current meanders. All aboard!
