Skip to content

NIRVANA in the Field

Fieldwork

Many of our projects contain a field component. Over the past few years, NIRVANA Lab members have sailed on sampling expeditions from the Subarctic to the Southern Oceans. Below is a list of the major field campaigns that we've been involved with. Be sure to check back periodically, as we are always heading out on new adventures!

R/V Neil Armstrong pushing back from Dyers Dock
R/V Neil Armstrong pushing back from Dyers Dock

AR93

  • Project: How Gulf Stream Intrusions Change Microbial Recycling across the Northeast Shelf
  • Chief Scientist: Laura Motta
  • Ship: R/V Neil Armstrong
  • Expedition ID: AR93
  • Ports: Woods Hole, USA to Woods Hole
  • Dates: 2025-08-23 to 2025-08-30 (8 days)
  • NIRVANA Participant(s): Jordyn Wemhoner
Golfito Bay
View of Golfito Bay seen from the O3 deck of the R/V Atlantis

CliOMZ

  • Project: Underexplored connections between nitrogen and trace metal cycling in oxygen minimum zones
  • Chief Scientist: Mak Saito
  • Ship: R/V Atlantis
  • Expedition ID: AT50-10
  • Ports: Golfito, Costa Rica to San Diego, USA
  • Dates: 2023-05-02 to 2023-06-08 (38 days)
  • NIRVANA Participant(s): Peter Crockford, Tristan Horner, Ichiko Sugiyama
R/V Roger Revelle arriving in Papeete
R/V Roger Revelle arriving in Papeete, French Polynesia, ready for the start of GP17-OCE

GEOTRACES GP17-OCE

  • Project: US GEOTRACES Southern Pacific Meridional Transect
  • Chief Scientist: Ben Twining
  • Ship: R/V Roger Revelle
  • Expedition ID: RR2214
  • Ports: Papeete, French Polynesia to Punta Arenas, Chile
  • Dates: 2022-12-02 to 2023-01-25 (55 days)
  • NIRVANA Participant(s): Margot Debyser, Iulia Streanga
McLane Pump recovery
Emilie Le Roy ready to recover a McLane Pump during RR2106

PLUME RAIDERS

  • Project: Probing Low-temperature Underwater Metal-rich Exhalations at Ridges and Assessment of their Importance to Dissolved Element Release and Stabilization
  • Chief Scientist: Joe Resing
  • Ship: R/V Roger Revelle
  • Expedition ID: RR2106
  • Ports: San Diego, USA to San Diego
  • Dates: 2021-09-18 to 2021-11-06 (50 days)
  • NIRVANA Participant(s): Emile Le Roy
Iulia on the deck of the R/V Kilo Moana at sunset
Iulia on the deck of the R/V Kilo Moana at sunset

PARAGON

  • Project: PARticles And Growth in the Oceanic Nutricline
  • Chief Scientist: Angelicque White
  • Ship: R/V Kilo Moana
  • Expedition ID: KM2112
  • Ports: Honolulu, USA to Honolulu
  • Dates: 2021-07-21 to 2021-08-06 (17 days)
  • NIRVANA Participant(s): Iulia Streanga
Iceberg seen during RR2004
Large iceberg seen from the deck of the R/V Roger Revelle during RR2004

SAMW Conditioning (Pacific Sector)

  • Project: Biogeochemical and Physical Conditioning of Sub-Antarctic Mode Water in the Southern Ocean
  • Chief Scientist: William 'Barney' Balch
  • Ship: R/V Roger Revelle
  • Expedition ID: RR2004
  • Ports: Honolulu, USA to Honolulu
  • Dates: 2020-12-26 to 2021-02-23 (60 days)
  • NIRVANA Participant(s): Jule Middleton, Logan Tegler
Penguins in Cape Town
African penguins resting on some rocks in Cape Town

SAMW Conditioning (Indian Sector)

  • Project: Biogeochemical and Physical Conditioning of Sub-Antarctic Mode Water in the Southern Ocean
  • Chief Scientist: William 'Barney' Balch
  • Ship: R/V Thomas G. Thompson
  • Expedition ID: TN376
  • Ports: Cape Town, South Africa to Port Louis, Mauritius
  • Dates: 2020-01-25 to 2020-03-03 (39 days)
  • NIRVANA Participant(s): Jule Middleton
Dissolved barium along GP15
Dissolved barium concentrations along the GP15 section

GEOTRACES GP15

  • Project: US GEOTRACES Pacific Meridional Transect
  • Chief Scientist: Greg Cutter
  • Ship: R/V Roger Revelle
  • Expedition ID: RR1814 and RR1815
  • Ports: Seattle, USA to Hilo, USA (leg 1); Hilo to Papeete, French Polynesia (leg 2)
  • Dates: 2018-09-18 to 2018-10-21 (leg 1); 2018-10-24 to 2018-11-24 (leg 2; 66 days total)
  • NIRVANA Participant(s): Emilie Le Roy
RR1813 cruise track
Cruise track for RR1813

EXPORTS

  • Project: EXport Processes in the Ocean from RemoTe Sensing
  • Chief Scientist: Deborah Steinberg
  • Ship: R/V Roger Revelle
  • Expedition ID: RR1813
  • Ports: Seattle, USA to Seattle
  • Dates: 2018-08-10 to 2018-09-12 (34 days)
  • NIRVANA participant(s): Muntsa Roca-Martí
R/V Falkor in Papeete
R/V Falkor at the dock in Papeete, French Polynesia, following ProteOMZ

ProteOMZ

  • Project: Investigating Life without Oxygen in the Tropical Pacific
  • Chief Scientist: Mak Saito
  • Ship: R/V Falkor
  • Expedition ID: FK160115
  • Ports: Honolulu, USA to Papeete, French Polynesia
  • Dates: 2016-01-16 to 2016-02-11 (28 days)
  • NIRVANA participant(s): Tristan Horner
R/V Blue Heron
R/V Blue Heron on the water near the Apostle Islands during BH15-11

UNOLS Chief Scientist Training Cruise

  • Project: Testing the limits of pelagic barite precipitation at low ambient sulfate
  • Chief Scientist: Nigel D'Souza
  • Ship: R/V Blue Heron
  • Expedition ID: BH15-11
  • Ports: Duluth, USA to Duluth
  • Dates: 2015-08-26 to 2015-08-28 (3 days)
  • NIRVANA participants: Tristan Horner (Co-Chief Scientist)