{"id":4664,"date":"2026-10-09T10:12:40","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T14:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/beaufortgyre\/?page_id=4664"},"modified":"2026-10-09T10:12:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T14:12:40","slug":"2026-dispatch-21","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/beaufortgyre\/expeditions\/2026-expedition\/2026-dispatches\/2026-dispatch-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Dispatch 21: Hope you\u2019re hungry!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<h1>Dispatch 21: Hope you&#8217;re hungry!<\/h1>\n\t<h3>Jennifer Kosty (Yale University)<\/h3>\n<p>October 8, 2026<\/p>\n<p>13:30 local, 75.45<sup>\u25e6<\/sup>N, 151.09<sup>\u25e6<\/sup>W<\/p>\n<p>Conditions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Windy<\/li>\n<li>100% sea ice cover<\/li>\n<li>-6.9<sup>\u25e6<\/sup>C<\/li>\n<li>Sunrise: 10:14 PDT (local)<\/li>\n<li>Sunset: 19:27 PDT (local)<\/li>\n<li>Day length: 9 hours, 13 minutes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We require a lot of food to fuel our long days of work up here in the Arctic. Luckily, the galley crew and stewards take amazing care of us, preparing 3 hot meals and plenty of snacks every day! I thought it would be fun to start today&#8217;s dispatch by walking you through a typical day of eats on the Louis.<\/p>\n<p>Breakfast is served from 7:30 &#8211; 8:30 am and always includes made-to-order eggs, bacon, beans, hash browns, and fresh muffins. Today&#8217;s breakfast menu also included toutons, a traditional Newfoundland dish made from fried bread dough. Around 11:30 am, we break for lunch, which today consisted of roast beef sandwiches, mashed potatoes, glazed carrots, and stuffed peppers. I was also excited to discover that today&#8217;s soup-of-the-day is butternut squash, the perfect fall comfort food! Tonight&#8217;s supper will include a nacho pasta bake, western sandwiches, mixed veggies, and fries. Supper is served from 4:30 &#8211; 5:30 pm, so it is common for people to enjoy a late-night snack as well. I asked around at lunch and learned that people&#8217;s favorite snacks on board include buttered toast, grapes, watermelon slices, Oreo cookies, and ice cream sundaes!<\/p>\n<p>Science-wise, today&#8217;s focus is on more CTD-rosette work. The night watch had an eventful cast at CB7 early this morning. They were fighting against strong winds (30-40 knots!), a swift current, and fragmented, fast-moving ice pieces. The initial cast had to be aborted around 300 m due to unsafe conditions. The bridge crew then repositioned us within a larger opening in the ice, but the night watch still had to end their second attempt early. We are currently steaming at a slow 6 knots towards CB5, where the day watch will hopefully be able to complete another cast tonight. Fingers crossed that the weather calms down before then!<\/p>\n<figure>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/beaufortgyre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/2026\/10\/Figure1-8.png\" alt=\"The most recent sea ice concentration map for the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas (Source: https:\/\/data.seaice.uni-bremen.de\/databrowser\/). \" height=\"1370\" width=\"1890\" title=\"Figure1\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t<figcaption>The most recent sea ice concentration map for the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas (Source: https:\/\/data.seaice.uni-bremen.de\/databrowser\/). <\/figcaption>\n\t<\/figure>\n<figure>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/beaufortgyre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/2026\/10\/Figure2-8.png\" alt=\"Map showing our current location along the planned 2026 cruise track.\" height=\"1919\" width=\"2558\" title=\"Figure2\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t<figcaption>Map showing our current location along the planned 2026 cruise track.<\/figcaption>\n\t<\/figure>\n<figure>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/beaufortgyre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/2026\/10\/Photo1-7-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Members of the science team enjoying lunch in the mess. Photo by Jennifer Kosty. \" height=\"1920\" width=\"2560\" title=\"Photo1\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t<figcaption>Members of the science team enjoying lunch in the mess. Photo by Jennifer Kosty. <\/figcaption>\n\t<\/figure>\n<figure>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/beaufortgyre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/2026\/10\/Photo2-6-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Today's lunch spread. Photo by Jennifer Kosty. \" height=\"1920\" width=\"2560\" title=\"Photo2\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t<figcaption>Today&#8217;s lunch spread. Photo by Jennifer Kosty. <\/figcaption>\n\t<\/figure>\n<figure>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/beaufortgyre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/2026\/10\/Photo3-8-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Tsukushi Komura processing an alkalinity water sample. Photo by Jennifer Kosty. \" height=\"1920\" width=\"2560\" title=\"Photo3\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t<figcaption>Tsukushi Komura processing an alkalinity water sample. Photo by Jennifer Kosty. <\/figcaption>\n\t<\/figure>\n<figure>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/beaufortgyre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/2026\/10\/Photo4-1.jpg\" alt=\"Kalum Delaney removing ice from the rosette wire. Photo by Clement Feriot.  \" height=\"2000\" width=\"1500\" title=\"Photo4\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t<figcaption>Kalum Delaney removing ice from the rosette wire. Photo by Clement Feriot.  <\/figcaption>\n\t<\/figure>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dispatch 21: Hope you&#8217;re hungry! Jennifer Kosty (Yale University) October 8, 2026 13:30 local, 75.45\u25e6N, 151.09\u25e6W Conditions: Windy 100% sea ice cover -6.9\u25e6C Sunrise: 10:14 PDT (local) Sunset: 19:27 PDT (local) Day length: 9 hours, 13 minutes We require a lot of food to fuel our long days of work up here in the Arctic.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":188,"featured_media":0,"parent":4420,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"tpl-sidebar.php","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","advanced-sidebar-menu\/link-title":"Dispatch 21: Hope you\u2019re hungry!","advanced-sidebar-menu\/exclude-page":false},"class_list":["post-4664","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/beaufortgyre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=4664"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/beaufortgyre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4673,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/beaufortgyre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4664\/revisions\/4673"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/beaufortgyre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/beaufortgyre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}