7 results found
 

Cloudy Day on the Gulf

Blog by dhowells | August 24, 2010 4 comments

Yesterday was a hot hot day. Not even so much because of the weather — although it was warm. More because a couple of us spent the day on the poop deck of the Arctic Sunrise doing plankton tows. Now, that may not seem like much,...

Creatures small to big

Blog by dhowells | August 22, 2010 2 comments

The Arctic Sunrise has made it's way west across the Gulf of Mexico about 100 miles south of the Louisiana coast. We're making our way to the first of a series of blue clab larvae tows scientists from Tulane will be doing to study the...

Investigation Under Resourced!?

Blog by dhowells | August 19, 2010 2 comments

After leaving Dry Tortugas out in the Gulf, we came about 10 miles from Key West to take a few people off and put a few on board. The sponge guys left and we were happy to work with them. Now we picked up scientists Caz Taylor and Erin...

Feeling a little Crabby

Blog by dhowells | August 17, 2010 1 comment

By now you've either seen Paul Horsmans' blog or read the news on the latest study showing about 80% of the oil from BP's Deepwater Horizon disaster is unaccounted for contradicting the White House’s rose garden view of what happened...

Life on the Arctic Sunrise (For me anyway)

Blog by dhowells | August 16, 2010

This is my first Greenpeace expedition and I’m barely into to it so the many old salts out there try not to have a laugh at my expense or do so anyway, it's OK. But here are some first impressions. Cleaning Toilets: There seems to...

Why we are in the Gulf

Blog by dhowells | August 13, 2010 6 comments

This morning reminded me of why we're really here. The Arctic Sunrise expedition into the Gulf of Mexico is conduct independent science to tell the story of the effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill forever changing the...

Victory along the coast - new offshore oil drilling halted

Blog by Dan Howells | December 3, 2010 3 comments

In a remarkable reversal just days after Thanksgiving and months of bad news about the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the Obama Administration showed maybe it did learn something. On Wednesday, December 1, the Administration...

1 - 7 of 7 results.