The Night Watch often roams the ship alone. Jean said it feels like the Louis is running on auto pilot.
(Peter Lourie)
Mike Dempsey of DFO-IOS is the leader of the rosette night crew. He’s made numerous JOIS trips to the Beaufort and works in many places in the Arctic throughout the year.
(Peter Lourie)
Mathura, Mike and Jean love working on the rosette at night. When they’re done with the sampling, they have the run of the ship to themselves and often gather in the boardroom for laughs and late-night leftovers.
(Peter Lourie)
Down goes the rosette. Mike gives operating signals to the winch operator.
(Peter Lourie)
When the rosette is going down and Steve in the operating room is tripping the bottles to collect water samples, Mike and Mathura head to the bongo nets to collect Arctic zooplankton for Kelly. Here Mike is bringing in the nets at the end of the cast and Mathura is working the winch.
(Peter Lourie)
The Niskin bottles ready for the next cast in the rosette shack after samples have been collected.
(Peter Lourie)
Our last week’s track, through a series of shallower rosette casts on the shelf off of Barrow (1), then a mooring site (2) and finally the Mackenzie River stations (3) and back to Kugluktuk where we started.
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