IN2019_T03: A moving reference for the Australian operational radar network

24 December 2019 – 2 January 2020

Travelling from Darwin to Fremantle, the Investigator’s weather radar will be used as a reference for the Australian radar network. Other projects will look at microplastics in the food chain and the distribution and abundance of seabirds.

Dr George Cresswell with participants of IN2019_T03. Photo credit: CSIRO

Researcher profile: Dr George Cresswell

Meet Dr George Creswell who is helping interpret the current water property information of the samples taken when isolating microplastics at sea.

Day 8: Seabird profiles

One of the most prolific species documented on this trip has been the shearwater.

Meet the Chief Engineer

I caught up with the Chief Engineer, Ben Newman to talk all things engineering and physics.

Day 4: Friend or Foe? The Hitch Hikers

While on board I helped researcher Elise Tuuri collect bacteria samples.

Day 3: Plankton goop is a thing!

We hear about it; we learn about it in biology lessons, but do we know what plankton does and how it is monitored – not really.

Day: 2 A CSIRO’y Christmas!

We spent Christmas day north of Broome in Western Australia.

Researcher profile: Monsoon Madness

Meet Dr Chen Li Alain from Monash University.

Researcher profile: Storm Chaser

Meet Dr Joshua Soderholm, Research Scientist from the Bureau of Meteorology.

Researcher profile: Chief Thunder Radar

Meet Dr Alain Protat, Senior Principal Research Scientist from the Bureau of Meteorology.