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Year 2016 news

Akademik Tryoshnykov deck

Voyage preparation on the Akademik Tryoshnykov, Bremerhaven


November 2016

The Akademik Tryoshnykov spent time in Bremerhaven, Germany, before heading south to start the ACE expedition. The RSSRG team took this occasion to start installing a number of equipment on the ship

The tethis profiler nce deployed off Rottnest Island, WA

Thetis qualification deployment


November 2016

The Thetis profiler was received from the manufacturer (WET Labs), and a qualification/test deployment was carried out off Rottnest with WET Labs assistance

Radiometers measuring radiance from the sea and reflected sky

RSSRG goes troppo


November 2016

RSSRG co-led the IMOS “Radiometry Task Team”, whose activities included a radiometry inter-comparison exercise carried out at the Lucinda Jetty Coastal Observatory (LJCO) in Queensland