The first PORO-CLIM expedition ran back in May 2021 and with another team of international scientists (some new faces, some old), we're...

We have been working in the Porcupine Seabight (hence the PO of PORO-CLIM) for the past week (with a brief stay in Bantry Bay) and have...

Storms come with the territory of working in the North Atlantic. As safety is a top priority on board, we always have to be adaptive to...

The previous installment of this blog post series about documenting life at sea was mostly about capturing pictures, but there is more to...

The Dry Lab aboard the RV Celtic Explorer is the heart of the scientific operations for the PORO-CLIM Expedition. It’s where we monitor...

Outreach is an important feature of the PORO-CLIM Expedition. Along with our blog and social media accounts we have been recording life...

We have had a very bust past 48 hours. We have been retrieving all our OBS instruments from the seabed. Lookout from the bridge, can you...

We have been asked some excellent questions from some curious school children about our Expedition. These questions came from students...

An OBS is a high-tech instrument that is used to measure what is going on under our feet from metres to kilometres beneath the seafloor....

We deployed the first of our instruments yesterday, a CTD cast, on the way towards our research area. CTD stands for Conductivity,...

We are now on our way to our research area and have begun to deploy the instruments. Over the past two days there has been a consistent...

Our onboard Science Party comprises of scientists and engineers from Irish, Danish & British universities and institutes covering a range...

After a two day delay in Galway port we have finally departed! At 3 o'clock this afternoon the Galway Port pilot came aboard and guided...

All the crew have arrived in Galway and had their negative COVID-19 PCR test. The Scientific Crew on the gangway of the RV Celtic...

Yesterday, 7 shipping containers left Aarhus University in Denmark. They're packed full of the geophysical equipment we need for the...

2 weeks to go... Today marks two weeks until we set sail on the RV Celtic Explorer. Let the countdown begin! Our onboard science party...

Today we had the first public outreach meeting. A team of 5 PhD and Post Doctoral researchers will be handling the public outreach,...