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After months of COVID-related delays and cancellations, research vessels are once again sailing ocean to study its carbon cycle
After months of COVID-related delays and cancellations, research vessels are once again sailing the the ocean to study its carbon cycle
By Sonia Fernandez
Santa Barbara, CA
So there wasn’t the pre-cruise party that would normally have taken place – rather they all carefully isolated from one another right up to the launch – but the 56 scientists aboard the RRS Discovery and the RRS James Cook were nevertheless excited to finally get together and put out to sea.
Their mission? To continue their study of how exactly the world’s oceans deal with carbon for the large-scale, NASA-led EXPORTS field campaign.