{"id":4280,"date":"2025-10-16T09:09:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T13:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/beaufortgyre\/?page_id=4280"},"modified":"2025-10-16T09:13:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T13:13:06","slug":"2025-dispatch-27","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/beaufortgyre\/expeditions\/2025-expedition\/2025-dispatches\/2025-dispatch-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Dispatch 27: The calm before the storm\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<h2>Dispatch 27: The calm before the storm&#8230;<\/h2>\n\t<h3>Jennifer Kosty (Yale University)<\/h3>\nOctober 15, 2025<br \/>\n15:00 local, 70.10\u25e6N, 141.07\u25e6W\n<p>Conditions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sunny<\/li>\n<li>0% sea ice cover<\/li>\n<li>-1<sup>\u25e6<\/sup>C<\/li>\n<li>Sunrise: 15-Oct-2025 10:40<\/li>\n<li>Sunset: 15-Oct-2025 19:38<\/li>\n<li>Day length: 8 hours, 58 minutes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We were woken up at 1:30 this morning to more exciting news &#8211; northern lights were spotted on the starboard side of the Louis! Most of our expedition route was located too far north to observe auroras, so we were keeping our fingers crossed for clear skies and favorable conditions as we entered the southern-most part of our journey. Luckily, our wishes came true, and we were treated to some unforgettable views of this incredible natural phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>After about 30 minutes of aurora watching, the day watch went back to bed to get some much-needed rest. Meanwhile, the night watch spent the remainder of their shift processing samples from the BL-line. We then met at 11 am for the daily science meeting, where ice specialist Kyle McDougall updated us on the weather forecast. A few days ago, we adjusted our original schedule for the MK-line to avoid a low-pressure system that is moving into the Beaufort Sea from the south. This system is projected to bring strong winds and large waves, which we were hoping to avoid during our work on the MK-line. We were glad to hear that our adjusted schedule should avoid the worst of the weather, with only moderate 1-1.5 m waves projected near the end of the MK-line.<\/p>\n<p>After a quick lunch of BBQ chicken\/meat lovers pita pizzas, chili cheese nachos, and tater tots, we officially began our work on the MK-line! The day watch will be completing the first 5 CTD-rosette casts of the MK-line today, and the night watch will be completing another 3 casts early tomorrow morning. Like the BL-line, the MK-line science stations are located close together, so the work is seemingly non-stop. However, 4 weeks into the cruise, we are a well-oiled machine and are ready to take on this challenge!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/beaufortgyre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/2025\/10\/Dispatch27Figure1.png\" alt=\" \nFigure 1: The most recent sea ice concentration map for the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas (Source: https:\/\/data.seaice.uni-bremen.de\/databrowser\/). \" height=\"452\" width=\"624\" title=\"Dispatch27Figure1\" \/>\nFigure 1: The most recent sea ice concentration map for the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas (Source: https:\/\/data.seaice.uni-bremen.de\/databrowser\/). \n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/beaufortgyre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/2025\/10\/Dispatch27Figure2.png\" alt=\"Figure 2: Map showing our current location along the planned 2025 cruise track. \" height=\"1071\" width=\"1430\" title=\"Dispatch27Figure2\" \/>\n\t\tFigure 2: Map showing our current location along the planned 2025 cruise track. \n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/beaufortgyre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/2025\/10\/Dispatch27Photo1.jpg\" alt=\"Photo 1: (left to right) Deckhand Devon Fitzpatrick, Chris Clarke, and C\u00e9line Gu\u00e9guen bringing the CTD rosette on deck. \" height=\"468\" width=\"624\" title=\"Dispatch27Photo1\" \/>\n\t\tPhoto 1: (left to right) Deckhand Devon Fitzpatrick, Chris Clarke, and C\u00e9line Gu\u00e9guen bringing the CTD rosette on deck. \n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/beaufortgyre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/2025\/10\/Dispatch27Photo2.jpg\" alt=\" \nPhoto 2: Chris Clarke deploying a Bongo sampling net. Photo by Dominique Baker. \" height=\"546\" width=\"409\" title=\"Dispatch27Photo2\" \/>\nPhoto 2: Chris Clarke deploying a Bongo sampling net. Photo by Dominique Baker. \n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/beaufortgyre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/2025\/10\/Dispatch27Photo3.jpg\" alt=\"Photo 3: Land ahoy! We spotted the Alaskan coastline this morning. Photo by Annabel Payne. \" height=\"527\" width=\"396\" title=\"Dispatch27Photo3\" \/>\n\t\tPhoto 3: Land ahoy! We spotted the Alaskan coastline this morning. Photo by Annabel Payne. \n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/beaufortgyre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/2025\/10\/Dispatch27Photo4.jpg\" alt=\"Photo 4: Northern lights! Photo by Dominique Baker. \" height=\"635\" width=\"476\" title=\"Dispatch27Photo4\" \/>\n\t\tPhoto 4: Northern lights! Photo by Dominique Baker. \n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/beaufortgyre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/2025\/10\/Dispatch27Photo5.jpg\" alt=\"Photo 5: Members of the science team posing in front of last night's northern lights. Photo by Dominique Baker. \" height=\"563\" width=\"422\" title=\"Dispatch27Photo5\" \/>\n\t\tPhoto 5: Members of the science team posing in front of last night&#8217;s northern lights. Photo by Dominique Baker. \n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/beaufortgyre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/2025\/10\/Dispatch27Photo6.jpg\" alt=\"Photo 6: Erinn Raftery working in the chlorophyll lab. \" height=\"533\" width=\"400\" title=\"Dispatch27Photo6\" \/>\n\t\tPhoto 6: Erinn Raftery working in the chlorophyll lab. \n\t\t\t\t<img src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/beaufortgyre\/wp-content\/plugins\/bb-plugin\/img\/pixel.png\" alt=\"\" \/>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dispatch 27: The calm before the storm&#8230; Jennifer Kosty (Yale University) October 15, 2025 15:00 local, 70.10\u25e6N, 141.07\u25e6W Conditions: Sunny 0% sea ice cover -1\u25e6C Sunrise: 15-Oct-2025 10:40 Sunset: 15-Oct-2025 19:38 Day length: 8 hours, 58 minutes We were woken up at 1:30 this morning to more exciting news &#8211; northern lights were spotted on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":188,"featured_media":0,"parent":3919,"menu_order":27,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"tpl-sidebar.php","meta":{"advanced-sidebar-menu\/link-title":"Dispatch 27: The calm before the storm\u2026","advanced-sidebar-menu\/exclude-page":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/beaufortgyre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/beaufortgyre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/beaufortgyre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/beaufortgyre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/188"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/beaufortgyre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4280"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/beaufortgyre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4290,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/beaufortgyre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4280\/revisions\/4290"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/beaufortgyre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/beaufortgyre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}