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RRS James Clark Ross

The JCR in Arctic waters

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JR Update 14th January 2013

Jan 14, 2013
Today did not start well and I was not sure that I would have much to write about this evening.  I did consider taking pictures of banoffee pie as the highlight of the day at one point. In the early hours of this morning the ship took a fairly hefty roll,  which seems to have [...]

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JCR274

Jan 14, 2013
The RRS James Clark Ross is currently on science cruise JR274,  Ocean Acidification,  and will be spending the next few weeks sampling rather a lot of water. The above image is the proposed track for this cruise and at the time of writing this short update the JCR is just off of Elephant Island,  from [...]

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Mooring ? 3rd April 2012

Apr 11, 2012
The JCR left the Falkland Islands at the end of March for the final Antarctic science cruise of the season, this time with oceanographers and geologists.

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Previous Years

Antarctic 2008-2009

Northern Season 2008

Antarctic 2007-2008

Northern Season 2007

Antarctic 2006-2007

Northern Season 2006

Antarctic 2005-2006

Arctic 2005

Antarctic 2004-2005

Arctic 2004

Antarctic 2003-2004

North Atlantic 2003

Antarctic 2002-2003

Arctic 2002

Antarctic 2001-2002

North Atlantic 2001

Antarctic 2000-01