I arose to a cloudy foggy morning off the Northern Coast of Ireland. Looking out of my porthole, I saw the coast shrouded in fog. It was nice to awake to land outside my window. The seas have remained calm so we should be in port early. At this point in the cruise, the crew [...]
As I have written about in an earlier post, the purpose of this research project, SALSEA-Merge, is to understand the life history of the Atlantic Salmon, and to the figure out why they are not returning to the river after their migration out of the rivers and into the sea. This expedition is seeking to [...]
We continue to head south on our steam back to Killybegs. The weather has changed slightly with a low-pressure system to our south sending us some swell and winds. It is nice to feel the ship move a bit even though it is slight…it actually feels like we are at sea with the gentle roll [...]
After a successful four days of sampling, we are heading back to Killybegs. We have calm seas and light winds for our steam back. The sun was shining this morning but now the fog has once again rolled in. As we were steaming this morning, a large sperm whale cruised by close to the ship. [...]
On this final day of sampling, we found ourselves back up north…farther north than before. It seems that every day we steam north to start the sampling. The reason for this is to keep up with the migration of the salmon post-smolts. They are funneling along the shelf here off of the Voering Plateau moving [...]