As at 0600 on Thursday morning, we have finally started our voyage back to the RV Investigator’s home port of Hobart.
In a country like Australia, we are cognisant of the need for water and how difficult it is to find in places like the desert.
Meet Kim Picard, Marine Geoscientist working for Geoscience Australia.
Whilst travelling on board RV Investigator, one has the opportunity to engage with user-friendly interfaces and beautiful audio-visual displays of underway data.
Dr Jill Shephard is a Research Fellow at Murdoch University in Perth, Western Australia whose main role on board the RV Investigator is to undertake seabird and sea mammal surveys.
Meet Cassie Rowse, she is the Chief Steward aboard RV Investigator and has worked on the ship since her maiden voyage.
During today’s seafloor mapping transects we came ‘face to face’ with a rather sinister rock formation, carved into the granite cliffs of Cleft Island.
Of the numerous seabird species sighted thus far, one that has certainly not lived up to its name is the Shy Albatross.
Every four hours the hydrographers aboard Investigator stop the ship along one of the transect lines to undertake a ‘Sound Velocity Wet Test’ (SVT) to determine ocean temperature.
