A reminder of when our transatlantic expedition was out in the science section of the Dutch NRC newspaper, back in May 2016, in a very special article by Gemma Venhuizen, our journalist onboard! I cannot really read because it is not written in English, but just seeing it already brings back a lot of nice memories!
Strolling around one of the most arid places in our planet: Atacama Desert!
Since we were in Chile, we couldn't miss to travel further north and visit the amazing Atacama Desert, one of the most arid places on Earth. Dust lifted from the Atacama Desert is known to be incorporated into higher air layers and carried by the SE trade winds over and into the Pacific Ocean, similarly to what we known for the Saharan desert and the Atlantic.
Participation on DICE workshop "The Role of Dust in Climate Change: A biogeochemistry perspective"
We started 2018 in the best way possible by taking of the DICE workshop "The Role of Dust in Climate Change: A biogeochemistry perspective", in Las Cruces, Chile, 8-10 January. Scientists from all over the world and from different fields were participating, from biogeochemists, ocean and climate modellers.... to us, the "Dusty Gang" from the tropical North Atlantic!
Transatlantic expedition JC134: the beginning of DUSTCO!
It all started in the spring of 2016, when the dusty-team decided to cross the tropical North Atlantic for the fourth and last time. On the 19th of March we sailed from St. Johns (Antigua) on board of the British research vessel James Cook, heading to Sta. Cruz, Tenerife, where we would arrive one month later. T