<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2933223886149514161</id><updated>2011-07-08T04:41:15.560+01:00</updated><category term='Alto-Mar'/><category term='Tenerife'/><category term='IPEV'/><category term='Período Interglacial'/><category term='Partida'/><category term='Planalto de Voring'/><category term='Las Palmas'/><category term='Celtics'/><category term='Gran Canária'/><category term='Santa Catalina'/><category term='Recolha de Sedimentos'/><category term='Círculo Polar Ártico'/><category term='Corvo'/><category term='Islândia'/><category term='Vôo Canárias(ida)'/><category term='Motores do Marion Dufresne'/><category term='IPCC'/><category term='Sistema Casq'/><category term='Ilhas Faroe'/><category term='Turbiditos'/><category term='Badmington'/><category term='Período Glacial'/><category term='Arco-íris'/><category term='R/V Marion Dufresne'/><category term='IMAGES'/><category term='GIFT Workshop 2009'/><category term='AMOCINT'/><category term='Foramníferos'/><category term='Sevilha'/><category term='Sistema Multi-Corer'/><category term='Açores'/><category term='European Geosciences Union'/><category term='Vulcanismo'/><category term='Fractura de Charlie-Gibbs'/><category term='Refeições'/><category term='Palestra'/><category term='Fósseis'/><category term='Mapa'/><category term='The end'/><category term='Climate changes'/><category term='Margem Continental Marrocos'/><category term='Flores'/><category term='Dropstone'/><category term='Gardar'/><category term='Sistema Calypso'/><category term='Vöring'/><category term='Euro2008'/><category term='Core-Education Team'/><category term='Multi Sensor Track'/><category term='HAPS corer'/><title type='text'>Uma aventura a bordo do R/V Marion Dufresne - MD168 AMOCINT (IMAGES XVII)</title><subtitle type='html'>The international cruise onboard of the French RV Marion Dufresne will be conducted for the European Science Foundation EuroMarc project AMOCINT (Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation during Interglacials) and within the framework of the International Marine Global Change Study (IMAGES) programme, initiated in 1995 as an international collaborative science programme aimed at the collection and interpretation of high quality paleo-climate data from the global ocean.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>HP</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13259156716376584449</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_r6nE6BIXJbA/Stic_OynFDI/AAAAAAAAAQs/ZPA8QstYUGk/S220/lobo_mar.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>40</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2933223886149514161.post-266168150063909213</id><published>2009-04-30T20:00:00.006+01:00</published><updated>2010-04-30T20:13:17.977+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='GIFT Workshop 2009'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='European Geosciences Union'/><title type='text'>Bringing climate science into the classroom</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Durante a Assembleia Geral da &lt;em&gt;European Geosciences Union&lt;/em&gt; de 2009 apresentámos uma &lt;a href="http://www.es-loule.edu.pt/biogeo/pdf/egu_presentation.pdf" target="_blank"&gt;comunicação oral&lt;/a&gt; sobre o trabalho desenvolvido a bordo do R/V Marion Dufresne durante o cruzeiro AMOCINT, bem como o trabalho realizado na &lt;a href="http://www.es-loule.edu.pt/" target="_blank"&gt;Escola Secundária de Loulé&lt;/a&gt; com alunos do &lt;a href="http://www.es-loule.edu.pt/biogeo/clube.html" target="_blank"&gt;Clube de Ciências da Terra e do Espaço&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_r6nE6BIXJbA/S9soigfSX6I/AAAAAAAAAR0/qkVNUtXjvzE/s320/EGU2009-11306.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5466007146046054306" /&gt;No âmbito do Workshop &lt;em&gt;Geoscience Information for Teachers &lt;/em&gt;(GIFT) apresentámos ainda um &lt;a href="http://www.es-loule.edu.pt/biogeo/pdf/poster_egu2009.pdf" target="_blank"&gt;póster&lt;/a&gt; sobre o mesmo tema.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;*********************************************&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;You can see the presentation given at the &lt;em&gt;European Geosciences Union &lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;General Assembly&lt;/em&gt; 2009 about our work aboard the R/V Marion Dufresne and the work developed along with our students at school.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2009/EGU2009-6062-1.pdf" target="_blank"&gt;Abstract&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://www.es-loule.edu.pt/biogeo/pdf/egu_presentation.pdf" target="_blank"&gt;Powerpoint&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://www.es-loule.edu.pt/biogeo/pdf/poster_egu2009.pdf" target="_blank"&gt;Poster&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2933223886149514161-266168150063909213?l=amocint-pt.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/feeds/266168150063909213/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2933223886149514161&amp;postID=266168150063909213' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/266168150063909213'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/266168150063909213'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/2009/04/bringing-climate-science-into-classroom.html' title='Bringing climate science into the classroom'/><author><name>HP</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13259156716376584449</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_r6nE6BIXJbA/Stic_OynFDI/AAAAAAAAAQs/ZPA8QstYUGk/S220/lobo_mar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_r6nE6BIXJbA/S9soigfSX6I/AAAAAAAAAR0/qkVNUtXjvzE/s72-c/EGU2009-11306.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2933223886149514161.post-5812552886718961967</id><published>2009-04-30T19:30:00.006+01:00</published><updated>2010-04-30T20:04:43.473+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='AMOCINT'/><title type='text'>MD168 - AMOCINT (IMAGES XVII) Cruise Report</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_r6nE6BIXJbA/S9shzDj5LEI/AAAAAAAAARk/RSpT_2vAlhk/s1600/rapport.jpg" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 225px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_r6nE6BIXJbA/S9shzDj5LEI/AAAAAAAAARk/RSpT_2vAlhk/s320/rapport.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5465999733757127746" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Podem obter o relatório das actividades científicas e educativas desenvolvidas a bordo do R/V Marion Dufresne durante o cruzeiro AMOCINT &lt;a href="http://www.fiskeridir.no/english/content/download/15149/123782/version/1/file/080624.pdf"&gt;aqui&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;p&gt;You can download the report of the AMOCINT cruise &lt;a href="http://www.fiskeridir.no/english/content/download/15149/123782/version/1/file/080624.pdf" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;Kissel, C., Kleiven, H. and Morin, X and the Shipboard Scientific Party, MD168-AMOCINT/XVII IMAGES cruise report, in: &lt;em&gt;Les rapports de campagne à la mer&lt;/em&gt;, IPEV, ref: OCE/2008/02, 2008.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2933223886149514161-5812552886718961967?l=amocint-pt.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/feeds/5812552886718961967/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2933223886149514161&amp;postID=5812552886718961967' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/5812552886718961967'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/5812552886718961967'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/2009/04/md168-amocint-images-xvii-cruise-report.html' title='MD168 - AMOCINT (IMAGES XVII) Cruise Report'/><author><name>HP</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13259156716376584449</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_r6nE6BIXJbA/Stic_OynFDI/AAAAAAAAAQs/ZPA8QstYUGk/S220/lobo_mar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_r6nE6BIXJbA/S9shzDj5LEI/AAAAAAAAARk/RSpT_2vAlhk/s72-c/rapport.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2933223886149514161.post-8975499317724572716</id><published>2008-09-15T10:44:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2008-10-20T11:12:01.156+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Hello Again!!!</title><content type='html'>Now that the 2008/09 school year is starting I will make presentations to several classes and groups of teachers. Besides that, under the support of the INETI’s Departamento de Geologia Marinha, we will also work on the large amount of sediment collected by the CASQ corer, since a few 1.5 meters core sections were sent to Portugal. I will analyze along with my students the sediments in these core samples. We will develop the activity that we have prepared onboard and the results of the “research” will be presented in a national congress for young scientists in April or May 2009.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I truly think that this experience onboard R/V Marion Dufresne will change and improve my teaching strategies allowing me to take “real science” into the classroom. I would like to acknowledge the European Geosciences Union (EGU) and the French Polar Institute (Institut Paul-Emile Victor - IPEV) that have funded the «Teachers at Sea» educational program. And particularly I would like to thank Carlo Laj, coordinator of the program, for inviting me to take part in this magnificent experience. I can only hope that other fellow teachers will have the opportunity to participate and enjoy the great experiences this program provides.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2933223886149514161-8975499317724572716?l=amocint-pt.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/feeds/8975499317724572716/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2933223886149514161&amp;postID=8975499317724572716' title='1 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/8975499317724572716'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/8975499317724572716'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/2008/09/now-that-200809-school-year-is-starting.html' title='Hello Again!!!'/><author><name>HP</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13259156716376584449</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_r6nE6BIXJbA/Stic_OynFDI/AAAAAAAAAQs/ZPA8QstYUGk/S220/lobo_mar.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2933223886149514161.post-2024138476363275768</id><published>2008-07-08T00:06:00.007+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T23:44:06.132Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The end'/><title type='text'>Day 23 (07Jul2008)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SHKkhJdXuEI/AAAAAAAAAqM/KeESz-elwkI/s1600-h/Logo+teachers+at+sea.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SHKkhJdXuEI/AAAAAAAAAqM/KeESz-elwkI/s200/Logo+teachers+at+sea.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220415807457572930" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Location: 49º06’N – 11º32’W&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Weather: Cloudy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Wind: 13 knots&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Dear colleagues,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;         &lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sadly, our journey is quickly coming to an end. Although we have thoroughly enjoyed ourselves, and are sad to pack up our things and say our goodbyes, we are also excited to see our families and friends back on 'terra firma'. Together, we have learned and experienced many new things that we hope to incorporate into our classrooms. We also hope to disseminate the information to other teachers so that they might also share the experience with their students. Including  samples of authentic science is a key component of science  instruction.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SHKjdaln9hI/AAAAAAAAAp0/wMPF7B5Yc4c/s1600-h/photo+groupe+reconstitu%C3%A9+-.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SHKjdaln9hI/AAAAAAAAAp0/wMPF7B5Yc4c/s400/photo+groupe+reconstitu%C3%A9+-.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220414643824490002" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The hole group on the Marion Dufresne&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;       &lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are now sailing back towards the South, not far from the Irish coast. Yesterday we prepared our mail with Captain F. Duchene, and included many different hand stamps. Also yesterday Catherine Kissel, the chief scientist of the mission, summarized the results of the cruise. On the mission 10 Casq cores, 13 Calypso cores, and 4 Multicores, (together 483m of cores) have been taken (although not  all of these were successful). So far we have traveled 5000 miles.  Another important piece of information presented was the amount of time spent at each site (for surveying, coring, and transit).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;   &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For each coring site, magnetic susceptibility and lightness, or color reflectance, were correlated between the Calypso and Casq cores.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;         &lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt;Lightness gives us an early, and very general, indication of the origin of sediments. Lighter sediments are generally from pelagic sources, and darker sediments are generally from terrigenous sources. Lighter sediments typically indicate interglacial periods, while darker sediments typically indicate glacial periods. Many further analyses will be conducted after the campaign, but it may take a considerable amount of time these analyses to be fully understood and published. Overall, however, the goals of the AMOCINT campaign itself have already successfully been met.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SHKkA5agu1I/AAAAAAAAAp8/JnaF9-JNey4/s1600-h/Carlo%26Teachers2-.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SHKkA5agu1I/AAAAAAAAAp8/JnaF9-JNey4/s400/Carlo%26Teachers2-.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220415253394799442" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The teachers at sea&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;          &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the coming days we have many tasks to accomplish to get ready for our arrival in Brest. Tomorrow we will take two or three more cores south of Ireland and west of Brest, which we must process quickly.  All available data must also be turned in for the scientific report, and all of the samples must be carefully packed. The ship must also be cleaned for the "BREST 2008" festival, a naval festival which only takes place once every four years. During the festival a delegation  of the French minister of education will visit the R/V Marion Dufresne and Hélder and&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Carlo will inform them about the Teachers at Sea  program.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We thank you very much for following our journey through our emails.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;   &lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt;We hope that you will include examples from this research cruise when discussing how science is done in your classroom. We wish you and  your students a very happy summer holiday!&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sincerely,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt;Hélder - Gertrud - Catalina - Jean - Angela - Carlo&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2933223886149514161-2024138476363275768?l=amocint-pt.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/feeds/2024138476363275768/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2933223886149514161&amp;postID=2024138476363275768' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/2024138476363275768'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/2024138476363275768'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/2008/07/location-4906n-1132w-weather-cloudy.html' title='Day 23 (07Jul2008)'/><author><name>Alexandre Costa</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SHKkhJdXuEI/AAAAAAAAAqM/KeESz-elwkI/s72-c/Logo+teachers+at+sea.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2933223886149514161.post-2054207659455141972</id><published>2008-07-05T00:19:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T23:44:06.818Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Planalto de Voring'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Climate changes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='IPCC'/><title type='text'>Day 20 (04Jul)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SG_m2Vrt51I/AAAAAAAAAlw/-vvCFiOWwlg/s1600-h/Logo+teachers+at+sea.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SG_m2Vrt51I/AAAAAAAAAlw/-vvCFiOWwlg/s200/Logo+teachers+at+sea.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5219644314353526610" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Location: 65° 50' N - 4° 5' E &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Weather: Sunny&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Wind: 21 nds&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Hello everyone!&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;         &lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are in the last week of our journey, and we still have a large portion of the work of the mission to complete. We are currently in a critical site in the Vøring Plateau, where we have three coring sites and will take multiple cores of different types at each site. The weather is beautiful here off the coast of Norway, and the forecast for the time we will spend here looks very pleasant! The sea is calm and brilliant with the sunlight reflecting off of it. It is strange for most of us to have full sunlight throughout the night. This  should make the 4-8am shift a bit easier for Catalina, Gertrud, and Hélder.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SG_nkwjoTOI/AAAAAAAAAmA/tYbU-l93ZOQ/s1600-h/sunbathing+in+the+arctic_.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SG_nkwjoTOI/AAAAAAAAAmA/tYbU-l93ZOQ/s400/sunbathing+in+the+arctic_.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5219645111841344738" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Sunbathing in the Artic&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;        &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;We will continue with some of the information that was presented in lectures during transit time (since we are resuming work we will not have more lectures until the next transit period). PhD student Charline Marzin presented a series of two talks about climate modeling. Climate modeling is absolutely necessary to understand what changes we might expect to see in our climate in the future, and also what implications these changes may have. Also, modeling allows us to identify factors that are not changing in the way we would expect.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;   &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Through identification of phenomena that are not well understood researchers can identify areas for future research.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;       &lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt;When building a climate model, researchers must find a balance  between the level of resolution of the model, the time extent of the model, and the computing time required to run the model.  Climate conditions are affected by many factors, and are thus very complicated. The greatest source of uncertainty, however lies in future factors that  we cannot predict, such as economic factors, emission levels, human population, etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;      &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;In the second talk Charline focused on the findings of the most  recent IPCC* report and her own research. This IPCC report found it to be very likely (In the past IPCC report it was just "likely") that  recent rapid climate change is due to increased greenhouse gas (and especially CO2) emissions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SG_m9IR49oI/AAAAAAAAAl4/gQSmqxfHEgE/s1600-h/Charline+d%C3%A9coupant+une+carotte+calypso+au+fil-.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SG_m9IR49oI/AAAAAAAAAl4/gQSmqxfHEgE/s400/Charline+d%C3%A9coupant+une+carotte+calypso+au+fil-.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5219644431014622850" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Charline working on a Calypso core&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;        &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Charline is using climate modeling to better understand monsoons, and specifically what changes may take place in the monsoon cycle due to rapid climate change. PhD students Laure Resplandy and Stefano  Bonelli also presented information about their modeling projects. Stefano works on coupled climate-ice sheet modeling, in order to simulate the topography of past major ice sheets in both Northern and Southern hemispheres. This implies consistency between the simulated climate and ice sheets, including the main feedbacks between these  components.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;     &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Laure is modeling the distribution and transport patterns of areas of high productivity in the ocean at a high resolution. Her topic is particularly interesting because it involves both physics and  biology.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Hearing all of these talks involving modeling gave us an idea of the importance of modeling and the breadth of the field.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt;Thank you again for following along on our journey!&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Sincerely,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt;Catalina-Hélder-Gertrud-Jean-Angela-Carlo&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;* IPCC : Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2933223886149514161-2054207659455141972?l=amocint-pt.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/feeds/2054207659455141972/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2933223886149514161&amp;postID=2054207659455141972' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/2054207659455141972'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/2054207659455141972'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/2008/07/04jul.html' title='Day 20 (04Jul)'/><author><name>Alexandre Costa</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SG_m2Vrt51I/AAAAAAAAAlw/-vvCFiOWwlg/s72-c/Logo+teachers+at+sea.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2933223886149514161.post-703313055586100366</id><published>2008-07-02T01:47:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T23:44:07.353Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Alto-Mar'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Círculo Polar Ártico'/><title type='text'>Day 18 (2 Jul)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGur5UeAXmI/AAAAAAAAAlo/eWSUHvnoBpY/s1600-h/Logo+teachers+at+sea.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGur5UeAXmI/AAAAAAAAAlo/eWSUHvnoBpY/s200/Logo+teachers+at+sea.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5218453594474307170" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Location: 64º32'N - 05º56'W &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Weather: sunny&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Wind: 14 knots&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt;Dear Teacher Colleagues,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;      &lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt;Today, as we prepared to cross over the Arctic Circle, we are nearing the end of a long transit period between the Charlie Gibbs fault and the Vöring Plateau. This provides us with more time to learn more about the specific scientific projects that are being conducted in concert with the goals of this mission. Both the chief scientists and the graduate students have provided us with very interesting  lectures.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGurO5JthPI/AAAAAAAAAlg/Axa_DTWhL94/s1600-h/ArcEnCielComplet-.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGurO5JthPI/AAAAAAAAAlg/Axa_DTWhL94/s400/ArcEnCielComplet-.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5218452865586922738" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;A complete rainbow during transit between the Charlie Gibbs fault and the Vöring Plateau&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;      &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A chief scientist or a PhD student presented first; and then a masters student. These lectures help us to more clearly understand the goal  of the AMOCINT Project. The masters students presentations include research covering other areas of oceanographic, biological and geological research. These presentations are also a good opportunity for the students to practice presenting their research.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt;       &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt;First, co-chief scientist Kikki (Helga) Kleiven presented information about the overall goals of the AMOCINT project (which focus on reconstructing past deep ocean circulation patterns during interglacial periods to better understand how patterns may change in the future), general information about oceanography, ocean sediments, circulation patterns, and rapid climate change.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt;           &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt;Two days ago, chief scientist Catherine Kissel explained the importance of the past vectorial variation of magnetic field as stratigraphic tool. The paleomagnetism record can be used to determine leads and lags in the climate record, and accurately correlate  climate records from sediments and ice cores. The Earth's magnetic field generated in the core can be measured on the surface. The magnetic field is global and independent of climate, and can be measured in different materials. The study of paleomagnetism in lava flows leads to the reconstruction of past magnetism, and the magnetism of sediments gives information about their sources and environmental changes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;A PhD students Charline Marzin, along with two other PhD students, Stefano Bonelli and Laure Resplandy, also presented a series of two talks about ocean and climate modeling, as well as the recent IPCC report. We will discuss these topics further in the next email.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGuq6azvQSI/AAAAAAAAAlY/-vij-ZZ56Z8/s1600-h/passage+du+cercle+004-.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGuq6azvQSI/AAAAAAAAAlY/-vij-ZZ56Z8/s400/passage+du+cercle+004-.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5218452513844314402" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;We crossed the polar circle last night!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Thank you for your continued interest!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Sincerely,&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Helder-Gertrud-Jean-Catalina-Angela-Carlo&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2933223886149514161-703313055586100366?l=amocint-pt.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/feeds/703313055586100366/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2933223886149514161&amp;postID=703313055586100366' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/703313055586100366'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/703313055586100366'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/2008/07/2-jun.html' title='Day 18 (2 Jul)'/><author><name>Alexandre Costa</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGur5UeAXmI/AAAAAAAAAlo/eWSUHvnoBpY/s72-c/Logo+teachers+at+sea.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2933223886149514161.post-3476754117235447984</id><published>2008-07-01T23:43:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T23:44:08.036Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Círculo Polar Ártico'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Motores do Marion Dufresne'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Planalto de Voring'/><title type='text'>Dia 17 (1Jul)</title><content type='html'>Coordenadas: 66˚10’ N 0˚3’ E  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Olá a todos!!!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"&gt;Hoje voltámos a ter um dia com um Sol resplandecente. Obviamente as temperaturas foram igualmente mais agradáveis. É incrível a forma como o tempo muda de um dia para o outro. Não deixa de ser curioso que, sendo esta missão oceanográfica dedicada ao estudo das alterações climáticas, possamos constatar quão variável é o estado do tempo no curto prazo.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"&gt;Durante a manhã tivemos a oportunidade de ver a equipa da Universidade de Kiel (Alemanha) a realizar a amostragem de alguns testemunhos de sedimentos cortando-os em fatias de 1 cm. Os sedimentos eram depois colocados em frascos, devidamente catalogados, para mais tarde serem submetidos a análises isotópicas (δ&lt;sup&gt;18&lt;/sup&gt;O e δ&lt;sup&gt;13&lt;/sup&gt;C).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGskdN1VThI/AAAAAAAAAlA/t1uWIaS2Lw8/s1600-h/jena.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGskdN1VThI/AAAAAAAAAlA/t1uWIaS2Lw8/s400/jena.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5218304677587013138" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Amostragem de um testemunho de sedimentos Calypso&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"&gt;A seguir ao almoço efectuámos uma visita à sala das máquinas onde se localizam os dois motores eléctricos, com uma potência de 3000 kW cada, que, para além da propulsão até uma velocidade máxima de cerca de 16 nós, permitem que o navio se mantenha na mesma posição durante a realização das operações de carotagem. Pudemos ainda ver o conjunto dos três geradores a diesel que têm uma capacidade de produção de 8250 kW de energia eléctrica.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGsk8SGGwjI/AAAAAAAAAlI/eVt-lLJ3o64/s1600-h/motor1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGsk8SGGwjI/AAAAAAAAAlI/eVt-lLJ3o64/s400/motor1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5218305211307049522" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Motor eléctrico do Marion Dufresne&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGslJ63cJsI/AAAAAAAAAlQ/5aTSUg5FZCo/s1600-h/motor2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGslJ63cJsI/AAAAAAAAAlQ/5aTSUg5FZCo/s400/motor2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5218305445589690050" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Motor eléctrico do Marion Dufresne&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"&gt;No entanto, o que mais me impressionou, foi o sistema de dessalinização de água do mar que tem uma capacidade para tratar cerca de 20 toneladas de água por dia, permitindo que não haja falta de água a bordo. Assim, podemos tomar vários duches por dia de forma a vermo-nos livres da lama com que nos sujamos quando trabalhamos com os testemunhos de sedimentos no convés.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Durante a tarde assistimos ainda a uma segunda palestra sobre as propriedades magnéticas dos sedimentos. À noite festejámos antecipadamente a passagem do Círculo Polar Árctico, pois amanhã, ao chegarmos ao planalto de Vøring, voltaremos a realizar perfurações e ao trabalho por quartos no convés (…). Espero que em breve possamos assistir ao fenómeno do Sol da meia-noite.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2933223886149514161-3476754117235447984?l=amocint-pt.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/feeds/3476754117235447984/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2933223886149514161&amp;postID=3476754117235447984' title='2 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/3476754117235447984'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/3476754117235447984'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/2008/07/dia-17-1jul.html' title='Dia 17 (1Jul)'/><author><name>Alexandre Costa</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGskdN1VThI/AAAAAAAAAlA/t1uWIaS2Lw8/s72-c/jena.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2933223886149514161.post-4883302653725820777</id><published>2008-06-30T23:36:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T23:44:08.657Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Alto-Mar'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Círculo Polar Ártico'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Badmington'/><title type='text'>Dia 16 (30Jun)</title><content type='html'>Coordenadas: 63˚12’ N 10˚29’ W  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Olá a todos!!!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Hoje o mar esteve muito agitado. Creio mesmo que foi o dia em que o navio mais balançou desde o início do cruzeiro. As temperaturas voltaram a diminuir para valores abaixo dos 10 ˚C.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGsjJtQHv0I/AAAAAAAAAk4/xohHwA77Sfw/s1600-h/vagas.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGsjJtQHv0I/AAAAAAAAAk4/xohHwA77Sfw/s400/vagas.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5218303242911858498" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vagas no alto-mar a caminho do Círculo Polar Ártico &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;A manhã foi dedicada essencialmente ao descanso (deu para dormir até um pouco mais tarde do que o costume) e ao exercício físico. Voltámos a jogar badmington e também ténis de mesa. Acreditem que com o navio a balançar é bem complicado praticar desporto.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGsi5inKFNI/AAAAAAAAAkw/V3wBJQ5ArBY/s1600-h/badmington.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGsi5inKFNI/AAAAAAAAAkw/V3wBJQ5ArBY/s400/badmington.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5218302965177783506" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jogando badmington a bordo do Marion Dufresne&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;A seguir ao almoço voltámos a assistir a uma palestra sobre modelação climática. Deu-se ainda início aos preparativos da cerimónia de passagem do Círculo Polar Árctico.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Após o jantar, para quebrar a rotina, houve uma sessão de cinema na sala de conferências em que temos assistido às palestras.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2933223886149514161-4883302653725820777?l=amocint-pt.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/feeds/4883302653725820777/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2933223886149514161&amp;postID=4883302653725820777' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/4883302653725820777'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/4883302653725820777'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/2008/06/dia-16-30jun.html' title='Dia 16 (30Jun)'/><author><name>Alexandre Costa</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGsjJtQHv0I/AAAAAAAAAk4/xohHwA77Sfw/s72-c/vagas.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2933223886149514161.post-2742345899991835769</id><published>2008-06-30T23:18:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T23:44:08.815Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Islândia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sistema Multi-Corer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sistema Casq'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ilhas Faroe'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sistema Calypso'/><title type='text'>Day 16 (30Jun)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGnbgNgmLcI/AAAAAAAAAkg/qAeqLtTxIzk/s1600-h/Logo+teachers+at+sea.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGnbgNgmLcI/AAAAAAAAAkg/qAeqLtTxIzk/s200/Logo+teachers+at+sea.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5217942989714107842" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Location: 62° 11' N - 13° 48' W&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Temperature: 10°C&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Wind: 31.8 Knots - 335°/North&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt;Hello fellow teachers, Thank you for continuing on our journey with  us!&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;     &lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today we are on the second day of a 5 days transit up north. Right  now we are somewhere between Iceland and the Faeroe Islands. The next  site we are going to core are the Voeringer Plateau. Until now we have taken 8 Calypso cores, 6 Casqs and only one Multicore, some failed unfortunately.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;    &lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In order for an oceanographic campaign to be successful many people must collaborate on many levels. Research of this type requires a tremendous amount of planning and manpower. For instance, the AMOCINT project is spearheaded by four groups. Each group focuses on one or more specific geographic areas, but for the most part they conduct similar and/or complementary analyses on the sediments. The group  from the University of Kiel is currently focusing on the vicinity of the Açores, The two French groups from the University of Bordeaux and the L.S.C.E. of Gif-sur-Yvette are focusing on the areas of the Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone, Gardar strait and the Vöringer plateau.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;      &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt;The Bjerknes Center of Climate from Norway is covering the sites outside West Africa, the Faeroe Islands and also the Vöringer  plateau.&lt;/div&gt;    &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Although the group from Portugal (from the INETI (Instituto Nacional de Engenharia, Tecnologia e Inovação) Departamento de Geologia Marinha) is not present on this leg of the cruise, they will take cores around the Portuguese margin on a cruise starting in July. Each group is involved in decisions affecting the mission, however, it should also be noted that the overall goal of the campaign is the  same.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;               &lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt;We all also must collaborate on smaller levels as well. For instance, we are all organized into watches, or shifts. Gertrud, Hélder, and Catalina are on the 4-8 shift, afternoon and evening, and Angela and Jean have the 8-12 shifts, morning and evening. In order to process the samples properly in the time allotted everyone must do their part and be present for their shift. Our shift groups were organized to allow people from diverse background to work together and get to know each other. Each shift group includes people from different institutions, professions, nationalities, and with different cultural norms, work styles, and languages. This is an example of why it is important for our students to work well together in groups despite differences they might have.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;      &lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt;The research effort also involves many people with backgrounds and skill sets other than oceanography. There are many aspects that go into designing and operating coring equipment and a research vessel, as well as planning an oceanographic mission. The crew is largely  from France and Madagascar, and is also very diverse, and made-up of men and women from many different ages and backgrounds.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;         &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although what we do on a day-to-day basis before, during, and after the cruise is very different, we are all working towards a common goal. There are many people on the ship from different cultural backgrounds and who speak different languages. Just some of the languages you will hear on a daily basis during this campaign are French, English, Norwegian, and German, but there are many others!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;This provides a fantastic learning opportunity. When we discuss the collaborative nature of science with our students, an oceanographic campaign provides a great example!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thank you again for your continued interest!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Sincerely,&lt;br /&gt;Hélder-Catalina-Gertrud-Jean-Angela-Carlo&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2933223886149514161-2742345899991835769?l=amocint-pt.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/feeds/2742345899991835769/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2933223886149514161&amp;postID=2742345899991835769' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/2742345899991835769'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/2742345899991835769'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/2008/07/day-16-30jun.html' title='Day 16 (30Jun)'/><author><name>Alexandre Costa</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGnbgNgmLcI/AAAAAAAAAkg/qAeqLtTxIzk/s72-c/Logo+teachers+at+sea.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2933223886149514161.post-1910919487403744055</id><published>2008-06-29T23:55:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T23:44:10.002Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Refeições'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Arco-íris'/><title type='text'>Dia 15 (29Jun)</title><content type='html'>Coordenadas: 60˚42’ N 18˚28’ W  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Olá a todos!!!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Hoje atravessámos o paralelo 60… O mar e o vento mantiveram-se calmos ao longo da maior parte do dia. O Sol voltou a brilhar e as temperaturas estiveram um pouco mais agradáveis. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"&gt;Sendo Domingo a comida foi especial. Como já vos disse as refeições a bordo do Marion Dufresne são uma maravilha. Ao pequeno-almoço tivemos direito a comer uns pãezinhos com passas ainda mornos… Uhm… que delícia! Ainda da parte da manhã, para manter a forma, jogámos badmington, ténis de mesa e andámos um pouco de bicicleta. O almoço incluiu como costume uma entrada e um prato. A entrada foi um &lt;i style=""&gt;Feuillté d’escargots&lt;/i&gt; e a refeição principal foi &lt;i style=""&gt;Sanglier des Ardennes&lt;/i&gt; com &lt;i style=""&gt;Pommes Paillassons&lt;/i&gt; e um &lt;i style=""&gt;Fagot de Haricots Verts &lt;/i&gt;acompanhada com um belo &lt;i style=""&gt;Chardonnay&lt;/i&gt; branco. Seguiu-se um &lt;i style=""&gt;Plateau de fromages&lt;/i&gt; e um &lt;i style=""&gt;Banc d’Opéra&lt;/i&gt; como sobremesa. Estava tudo delicioso!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGnXzriIgRI/AAAAAAAAAkA/HSng6wj9xso/s1600-h/escargots.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGnXzriIgRI/AAAAAAAAAkA/HSng6wj9xso/s400/escargots.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5217938926144618770" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;Feuillté d’escargots&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGnYmDkMf6I/AAAAAAAAAkI/dnZ1WnpdeZ4/s1600-h/sanglier.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGnYmDkMf6I/AAAAAAAAAkI/dnZ1WnpdeZ4/s400/sanglier.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5217939791589179298" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;Sanglier des Ardennes&lt;/i&gt; com &lt;i style=""&gt;Pommes Paillassons&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGnY8nvfLJI/AAAAAAAAAkQ/ySUkTpIFHHA/s1600-h/banc_opera.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGnY8nvfLJI/AAAAAAAAAkQ/ySUkTpIFHHA/s400/banc_opera.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5217940179257339026" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;Banc d’Opéra&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"&gt;De tarde, como estamos em “trânsito” entre estações, e não temos testemunhos de sedimentos para tratar e analisar, assistimos a uma palestra sobre o campo magnético terrestre e as propriedades magnéticas dos sedimentos.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"&gt;O resto da tarde foi dedicado à lavagem de roupa e descanso. O jantar também estava muito bom. Seguiu-se mais uma celebração de um aniversário. O momento alto do dia foi quando por volta das 23 horas surgiu um belo arco-íris no céu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGnZPuxOaQI/AAAAAAAAAkY/fIS1rrAaYQ0/s1600-h/arco_iris.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGnZPuxOaQI/AAAAAAAAAkY/fIS1rrAaYQ0/s400/arco_iris.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5217940507561191682" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Arco-íris ... às 23 horas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"&gt;Sim… o Sol ainda brilhava, isto apesar de ainda não termos chegado ao Círculo Polar Ártico. Mal posso esperar para ver o Sol da meia-noite…&lt;b style=""&gt;  &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGnd0fqNigI/AAAAAAAAAko/pfhfdif_ZCU/s1600-h/por_do_sol.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGnd0fqNigI/AAAAAAAAAko/pfhfdif_ZCU/s400/por_do_sol.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5217945537206913538" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pôr do Sol&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2933223886149514161-1910919487403744055?l=amocint-pt.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/feeds/1910919487403744055/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2933223886149514161&amp;postID=1910919487403744055' title='1 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/1910919487403744055'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/1910919487403744055'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/2008/06/dia-15-29jun.html' title='Dia 15 (29Jun)'/><author><name>Alexandre Costa</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGnXzriIgRI/AAAAAAAAAkA/HSng6wj9xso/s72-c/escargots.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2933223886149514161.post-1859075126543526421</id><published>2008-06-28T22:49:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T23:44:10.147Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Vöring'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Islândia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sistema Calypso'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gardar'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dropstone'/><title type='text'>Dia 14 (28Jun)</title><content type='html'>Coordenadas: 57˚26’ N 27˚54’ W  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Olá a todos!!!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;O mar e o vento mantiveram-se calmos ao longo da maior parte do dia. O Sol voltou a brilhar, mas as temperaturas mantêm-se baixas. Chegámos no final da manhã à zona da estação de amostragem de Gardar, localizada a sudoeste da Islândia, e já durante a tarde foi lançado ao mar o equipamento de carotagem Calypso.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGnUzHFGpeI/AAAAAAAAAj4/cM63CqFruqc/s1600-h/calypso_tube.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGnUzHFGpeI/AAAAAAAAAj4/cM63CqFruqc/s400/calypso_tube.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5217935617824302562" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;O tubo Calypso&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;O testemunho de sedimentos obtido não foi tão comprido quanto o esperado devido a uma “drop stone” que impediu o fecho do sistema de retenção dos sedimentos existente na ogiva. Perderam-se cerca de 30 metros de material e o testemunho de sedimentos ficou muito alterado, tendo sido recuperados apenas cerca de 23 metros. No final do dia zarpámos em direcção ao planalto de Vöring (onde serão recolhidos sedimentos em três locais) e, durante o turno das quatro às oito da manhã, terminámos o processamento do testemunho de sedimentos recolhidos em Gardar. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2933223886149514161-1859075126543526421?l=amocint-pt.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/feeds/1859075126543526421/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2933223886149514161&amp;postID=1859075126543526421' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/1859075126543526421'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/1859075126543526421'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/2008/06/dia-14-28jun.html' title='Dia 14 (28Jun)'/><author><name>Alexandre Costa</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGnUzHFGpeI/AAAAAAAAAj4/cM63CqFruqc/s72-c/calypso_tube.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2933223886149514161.post-2074218320110013433</id><published>2008-06-28T16:02:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T23:44:10.488Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sistema Casq'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sistema Calypso'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fractura de Charlie-Gibbs'/><title type='text'>Day 13 (27 Jun)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGZxNPRe8AI/AAAAAAAAAjI/_R5a0kNa0SA/s1600-h/Logo+teachers+at+sea.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGZxNPRe8AI/AAAAAAAAAjI/_R5a0kNa0SA/s200/Logo+teachers+at+sea.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5216981690607398914" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Location: 54º 32’N – 32º 56’W &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Weather: Cloudy and rainy&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Wind: 28 knots&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;        &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Coring has just been completed at two sampling locations in the Charlie Gibbs fracture zone. The exact location of the sampling sites was unknown because this area has not been surveyed before. Indeed, although the oceanographic vessel Charcot took a short core in this area in 1977, at that time there was no GPS technology, so the position was imprecise. Therefore, time for surveying was needed before coring. Through the use of previously existing bathymetric  maps and the multi-beam technology available on the Marion Dufresne, the location was found more easily than expected at the first site. A longer survey was needed for the second, shallower site.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGZwMTw1EnI/AAAAAAAAAjA/c0gvvOONz_g/s1600-h/CGFZ.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGZwMTw1EnI/AAAAAAAAAjA/c0gvvOONz_g/s400/CGFZ.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5216980575121117810" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Map with the coring stations location near the Charlie-Gibbs fracure zone.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;       &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The interest of coring in this area is that it is located on the path of both the warm surface waters going northward (north Atlantic  drift) and the dense cold deep water mass coming back southward from the Nordic seas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;    &lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt;Once we arrived at the Charlie Gibbs fracture zone, we took a Casq core, but some of the sediments spilled out the top. Then, sediment  in perfect condition was collected in a 35.48 meter long Calypso core.  An additional successful Casq core completed sampling at the first site.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;    &lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt;At the site the wind was very strong, and there were large waves, which made the coring very difficult. Also, the temperature was quite cold, which made the work uncomfortable and exhausting at times. The weather conditions even made the working conditions risky, as we unfortunately saw when Gertrud fell on slippery steps. She bruised  her ribs, but is in good spirits—and is currently processing data!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt;       &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Marion Dufresne now continues on to the second location in the Charlie Gibbs zone in hopes of better weather. The survey allowed the research team to make a more extensive bathymetric chart of the area.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;In fact, the weather conditions did not improve at the second location, but became more challenging (the wind was at a speed of 45 Knots). A Casq core, and then a Calypso were attempted, but the  latter had little success (the Calypso core was only 7.27 meters).  Therefore, last night the first location was again investigated in hopes of obtaining a longer Calypso core. When we arrived the weather was much improved, with calmer seas, so a long Calypso core was attempted with the approval of the captain. Everybody was extremely pleased to bring a 52.45 meter Calypso core on deck about 4 a.m. last night! Overall, although we experienced some set-backs, the coring efforts were  highly successful in the Charlie Gibbs fracture zone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;            &lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt;Now that the Charlie Gibbs fracture zone work is successfully completed we will continue North to our next sampling site (the “Gardar” site). We will arrive tomorrow afternoon, and should have some news for you in our next email—thank you for your continued interest!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Your fellow sea-faring teachers,&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Hélder - Jean - Gertrud -Catalina - Angela - Carlo&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2933223886149514161-2074218320110013433?l=amocint-pt.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/feeds/2074218320110013433/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2933223886149514161&amp;postID=2074218320110013433' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/2074218320110013433'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/2074218320110013433'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/2008/06/27-jun.html' title='Day 13 (27 Jun)'/><author><name>Alexandre Costa</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGZxNPRe8AI/AAAAAAAAAjI/_R5a0kNa0SA/s72-c/Logo+teachers+at+sea.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2933223886149514161.post-184087031127707273</id><published>2008-06-27T23:21:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T23:44:11.105Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Alto-Mar'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Recolha de Sedimentos'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Multi Sensor Track'/><title type='text'>Dia 13 (27Jun)</title><content type='html'>Coordenadas: 52˚70’ N 35˚94’ W  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Olá a todos!!!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"&gt;Esta madrugada, ao acordar, fui surpreendido com a notícia de que tínhamos regressado à primeira estação da região da fractura Charlie-Gibbs e que estavam a puxar para o convés o equipamento Calypso. À segunda tentativa conseguimos recolher o testemuho de sedimentos mais comprido, obtido até ao momento nesta campanha, com cerca de 53 metros. Tivemos muito que fazer ao longo do dia…&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"&gt;O mar e o vento estiveram mais calmos, mas as temperaturas continuaram baixas (com máximas entre 8 e 10 ˚C) ao contrário das temperaturas elevadas que se têm registado no nosso país.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"&gt;Após a equipa que lida com os equipamentos de carotagem ter colocado o tubo de aço do sistema Calypso no convés e retirado o tubo de plástico do seu interior o seu trabalho terminou. A partir dali entrámos nós em acção. Entre as quatro e as oito da manhã tivemos que cortar o tubo de plástico, que contém os sedimentos, em secções e transportar cada uma delas até ao local onde as amostras são tratadas. Hoje foi seguramente o dia em que tivemos mais trabalho. Quando o nosso turno regressou ao convés às quatro da tarde ainda havia tubos para limpar e identificar. Para além disso ainda tivemos que cortá-los em duas metades (uma para arquivo e a outra para analisar e estudar), catalogá-las e empacotá-las.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGZKCPRB8fI/AAAAAAAAAig/LP5nE2Ks-tE/s1600-h/cores_processing.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGZKCPRB8fI/AAAAAAAAAig/LP5nE2Ks-tE/s400/cores_processing.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5216938620673454578" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Abertura de um testemunho de sedimentos Calypso&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"&gt;Os sedimentos da metade que é analisada a bordo foram descritos usando-se um formulário que permite recolher informações relativas à estratigrafia, espessura das camadas, litologia e estruturas sedimentares, textura (alguns dos cientistas chegam mesmo a provar os sedimentos de forma a descrevê-la), conteúdo fossilífero e perturbações resultantes do manuseamento das amostras.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGZJzqa4mCI/AAAAAAAAAiY/6I80w7sQ9-k/s1600-h/core_description.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGZJzqa4mCI/AAAAAAAAAiY/6I80w7sQ9-k/s400/core_description.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5216938370264504354" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Descrição de um testemunho de sedimentos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"&gt;Para além desta descrição qualitativa os testemunhos de sedimentos foram analisados no &lt;i style=""&gt;Multi Sensor Track&lt;/i&gt; (MST) a que já fiz referência. O MST é um conjunto de instrumentos, localizado num contentor, que permite medir algumas propriedades físicas dos sedimentos recolhidos. Estas propriedades são a velocidade de propagação das ondas P, o diâmetro e temperatura do testemunho de sedimentos, a atenuação de radiação Gama e a susceptibilidade magnética. Os sedimentos foram ainda fotografados e analisados por um espectrómetro.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGZL1V0XGWI/AAAAAAAAAiw/kCMZh9RuyAs/s1600-h/mst.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGZL1V0XGWI/AAAAAAAAAiw/kCMZh9RuyAs/s400/mst.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5216940598117210466" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Análise de sedimentos no MST&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"&gt;Depois de tudo isto terminámos o turno e pudemos finalmente ir jantar, descansar e dormir uma noite de sono completa, pois iniciámos um período de “trânsito” de cerca de 24 horas, rumo a Nordeste, até à zona de Gardar.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2933223886149514161-184087031127707273?l=amocint-pt.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/feeds/184087031127707273/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2933223886149514161&amp;postID=184087031127707273' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/184087031127707273'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/184087031127707273'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/2008/06/dia-13-27jun.html' title='Dia 13 (27Jun)'/><author><name>Alexandre Costa</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGZKCPRB8fI/AAAAAAAAAig/LP5nE2Ks-tE/s72-c/cores_processing.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2933223886149514161.post-8531054593636741190</id><published>2008-06-26T23:13:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T23:44:11.300Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Recolha de Sedimentos'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sistema Casq'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sistema Calypso'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fractura de Charlie-Gibbs'/><title type='text'>Dia 12 (26Jun)</title><content type='html'>Coordenadas: 53˚11’ N 36˚49’ W  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Olá a todos!!!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"&gt;O frio veio definitivamente para ficar… O mar entretanto, devido ao vento forte (cerca de 50 nós) que se fez sentir, esteve muito agitado o que dificultou os trabalhos de pesquisa dos novos locais a perfurar e a colocação do equipamento de carotagem na água. Continuámos ao longo de todo o dia a pesquisar diferentes locais na região de fractura Charlie-Gibbs. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"&gt;O interesse em recolher sedimentos na zona da fractura Charlie-Gibbs tem a ver com o facto de a corrente de água profunda do Atlântico Norte passar por ali e permitir a deposição uma grande quantidade de sedimentos naquela região.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGZH2GV7yMI/AAAAAAAAAiQ/cvNMgj4noZA/s1600-h/CGFZ.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGZH2GV7yMI/AAAAAAAAAiQ/cvNMgj4noZA/s400/CGFZ.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5216936213096417474" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Locais de recolha de sedimentos na zona da fractura Charlie-Gibbs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"&gt;Apesar de estar prevista a recolha de sedimentos em mais duas estações, as pesquisas efectuadas permitiram apenas encontrar mais um local adequado para o lançamento dos equipamentos de carotagem. O mar acalmou um pouco, pelo que no fim do dia ainda ali se conseguiu recolher mais testemunhos de sedimentos com dois dos tipos de equipamento de carotagem a bordo do R/V Marion Dufresne: Calypso e Casq.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Espera-nos um longo período de tempo dedicado ao tratamento das amostras de sedimentos recolhidas. Amanhã vou descrever o tipo de análises preliminares a que os testemunhos de sedimentos são sujeitos a bordo. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2933223886149514161-8531054593636741190?l=amocint-pt.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/feeds/8531054593636741190/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2933223886149514161&amp;postID=8531054593636741190' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/8531054593636741190'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/8531054593636741190'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/2008/06/dia-12-26jun.html' title='Dia 12 (26Jun)'/><author><name>Alexandre Costa</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGZH2GV7yMI/AAAAAAAAAiQ/cvNMgj4noZA/s72-c/CGFZ.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2933223886149514161.post-609586877765449391</id><published>2008-06-25T23:57:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T23:44:12.200Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Turbiditos'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Recolha de Sedimentos'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sistema Casq'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Período Interglacial'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Período Glacial'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fractura de Charlie-Gibbs'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dropstone'/><title type='text'>Dia 11 (25Jun)</title><content type='html'>Coordenadas: 52˚51’ N 36˚30’ W  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Olá a todos!!!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Hoje o mar esteve bastante calmo, mas a temperatura não passou dos 11 ˚C (…). Foi um dia de trabalho contínuo para todos os turnos. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Após termos chegado à zona da fractura Charlie-Gibbs, durante a madrugada, procurámos o melhor local para realizar a recolha de sedimentos. Uma vez concluída a pesquisa lançou-se à água o equipamento de carotagem Casq na primeira estação de amostragem.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGZFVhemADI/AAAAAAAAAh4/ZOLBfg2Hp8Y/s1600-h/casq_proc.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGZFVhemADI/AAAAAAAAAh4/ZOLBfg2Hp8Y/s400/casq_proc.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5216933454421557298" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Recolha de amostras no tubo de carotagem Casq&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;O primeiro testemunho de sedimentos recolhido permitiu obter uma boa sequência de materiais, depositados em períodos com diferentes condições climáticas, que eram facilmente identificáveis pela cor bege (interglacial) e cinzento-escuro (glacial).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGZF9xhpFkI/AAAAAAAAAiI/ONfjiVnIbwg/s1600-h/inter_glacial.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGZF9xhpFkI/AAAAAAAAAiI/ONfjiVnIbwg/s400/inter_glacial.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5216934145924077122" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Sedimentos depositados em diferentes períodos climáticos interglacial - e cinzento-escuro - glacial).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Nestes sedimentos foram encontradas rochas designada por “dropstones” que foram transportadas desde altas latitudes por glaciares que ao fundir permitiram a sua queda no fundo do oceano.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGZFlwe3QoI/AAAAAAAAAiA/ThcL7nbVFSk/s1600-h/dropstone.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGZFlwe3QoI/AAAAAAAAAiA/ThcL7nbVFSk/s400/dropstone.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5216933733327127170" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dropstone&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Outro aspecto interessante deste testemunho de sedimentos foi a possibilidade de identificar depósitos turbidíticos, que se caracterizam por ser mais grosseiros na base e mais finos no topo, bem como uma camada bastante rica em vestígios de diatomáceas.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGZERdWG70I/AAAAAAAAAhw/1AuImi-9mEU/s1600-h/turbidite.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGZERdWG70I/AAAAAAAAAhw/1AuImi-9mEU/s400/turbidite.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5216932285081120578" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Turbiditos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Foram ainda lançados os equipamentos de carotagem multi-corer, cujos tubos regressaram vazios, e Calypso que regressou ao convés sem qualquer problema e cheio de sedimentos.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2933223886149514161-609586877765449391?l=amocint-pt.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/feeds/609586877765449391/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2933223886149514161&amp;postID=609586877765449391' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/609586877765449391'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/609586877765449391'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/2008/06/dia-11-25jun.html' title='Dia 11 (25Jun)'/><author><name>Alexandre Costa</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGZFVhemADI/AAAAAAAAAh4/ZOLBfg2Hp8Y/s72-c/casq_proc.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2933223886149514161.post-4759383077540959308</id><published>2008-06-24T23:56:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T23:44:12.690Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sistema Multi-Corer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sistema Casq'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sistema Calypso'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fractura de Charlie-Gibbs'/><title type='text'>Dia 10 (24Jun)</title><content type='html'>Coordenadas: 52˚01’ N 35˚05’ W  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Olá a todos!!!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Hoje o mar esteve bem mais calmo… e o Sol voltou a brilhar! A temperatura do ar tem baixado à medida que nos vamos deslocando para Norte. Ontem a temperatura máxima foi de 20 ˚C e hoje diminuiu para 12˚C. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;A manhã foi dedicada a recuperar da festa que houve ontem a bordo para celebrar quatro aniversários que decorreram nos últimos três dias. Durante a tarde voltámos a assistir a uma palestra sobre os fundamentos da modelação climática. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;O ponto alto do dia foi quando a Marie-Hélène Castera avistou uma baleia. Segundo a co-chefe da missão Kikki Kleiven é provável que avistemos mais baleias à medida que nos deslocamos para Norte. Se isso acontecer espero conseguir tirar algumas para partilhar convosco.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Entretanto, como vos prometi ontem aqui ficam as descrições dos restantes equipamentos de carotagem que temos usado a bordo do Marion Dufresne.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGHs5i2kB7I/AAAAAAAAAgw/sVLL3qhryE0/s1600-h/casq4.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGHs5i2kB7I/AAAAAAAAAgw/sVLL3qhryE0/s400/casq4.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5215710316824102834" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Sistema Casq&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;O sistema Calypso square (Casq) com cerca de 12 metros de comprimento não permite recolher testemunhos de sedimentos tão longos quanto o sistema Calypso, mas permite obter sequências sedimentares não perturbadas. Durante as operações de carotagem o tubo, com um formato quadrado (25cm x 25 cm), desce lentamente (sem queda livre) até ao fundo do oceano e penetra os sedimentos sem os movimentar. A grande superfície dos testemunhos de sedimentos obtidos com este sistema de carotagem permite estudar melhor a textura e estruturas sedimentares.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;O sistema multi-corer usado nesta missão oceanográfica permite recolher amostras de sedimentos junto à interface com a água. É formado por uma estrutura metálica e quatro tubos de plástico com cerca de 50 cm de comprimento e 10 cm de diâmetro. Os tubos penetram lentamente nos sedimentos e a recolha das amostras termina ½ metro após o equipamento atingir o fundo do oceano. Este equipamento é usado em águas pouco profundas e quando as correntes oceânicas o permitem.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGHsm7NwpWI/AAAAAAAAAgo/Ut_t5kOgGIM/s1600-h/multi-corer.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGHsm7NwpWI/AAAAAAAAAgo/Ut_t5kOgGIM/s400/multi-corer.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5215709996946335074" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Sistema multi-corer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Dentro de algumas horas regressamos ao trabalho e iremos voltar a usar os equipamentos de carotagem que vos descrevi nas três estações de amostragem previstas para a região da fractura Charlie-Gibbs.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2933223886149514161-4759383077540959308?l=amocint-pt.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/feeds/4759383077540959308/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2933223886149514161&amp;postID=4759383077540959308' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/4759383077540959308'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/4759383077540959308'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/2008/06/dia-10-24jun.html' title='Dia 10 (24Jun)'/><author><name>Alexandre Costa</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGHs5i2kB7I/AAAAAAAAAgw/sVLL3qhryE0/s72-c/casq4.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2933223886149514161.post-7738455067370100376</id><published>2008-06-24T06:21:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T23:44:13.266Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sistema Casq'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sistema Calypso'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Multi Sensor Track'/><title type='text'>Day 9 (23Jun) - Part 2</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGMowAEmOKI/AAAAAAAAAhQ/v5uZf4Ysp50/s1600-h/Logo+teachers+at+sea.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGMowAEmOKI/AAAAAAAAAhQ/v5uZf4Ysp50/s200/Logo+teachers+at+sea.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5216057598543280290" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;23 June 2008&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Location: 48° 57' N - 33°58' W&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Wind : ~17 knots&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Water temperature : 14°C&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Processing Samples and Data Collection&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bonjour chers collègues!&lt;/div&gt;       &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Today we are still traveling North from the two sampling locations near the Azores islands. This transit period will last 72 hours. Last night and this morning we were experiencing strong winds, and it was very challenging to walk around the ship. Some people were unable to sleep due to the motion, and those who get sea sick are trying to  find effective ways to control their nausea.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGMyMKTgvtI/AAAAAAAAAhg/U0WVKAsOS48/s1600-h/charlie-gibbs1.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGMyMKTgvtI/AAAAAAAAAhg/U0WVKAsOS48/s400/charlie-gibbs1.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5216067977931177682" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Selecting the coring site at the Charlie-Gibbs fracture zone&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Saturday and Sunday we completed processing the Casq and Calypso cores we collected in the Azores. There are many steps involved in this process-some can be completed here in the laboratory, and others must be completed in the laboratories of the participating institutions after the mission.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The Casq core is usually launched before the Calypso core. When the Casq core is brought on deck we must remove the cover, and then  smooth the surface of the sediment with spatulas. We must be careful to smooth the sediment only horizontally and not vertically, or else we will mix sediments from different time periods and contaminate the sample! Then, we place three rows of plastic tubes in the core, flip the core, and remove the tubes with sediment. These samples must all be carefully labeled and packaged for many different types of  analysis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;                     &lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt;The Calypso core is a steel round metal tube with a thick plastic lining. The crew removes the plastic lining from the metallic tube  and places it on the desk for us on metal stands. We then carefully cut the core into 1.5 meter sections. These samples are split into a "working" side and an "archival" side. For all types of cores we must be very careful to label the continuous length of the sediment properly, or else we will not obtain accurate information about the organisms that are present during each geological time period, and we will not be able to successfully reconstruct climate or circulation conditions.&lt;/div&gt;   &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the ship several qualities of the sediment are described using the visual core description form that includes the summary of stratigraphy, bed thickness, lithology and sedimentary structures,&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;texture, fossil content and coring disturbances. Sometimes the scientists even taste the sediment in order to describe its texture.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt;On board the Marion Dufresne there is also the Multi Sensor Track (MST). This is a group of instruments, located in a special  container, dedicated to the first measurements of physical properties of  sediment cores. These measured properties are P-wave travel time, core  diameter and temperature, Gamma ray attenuation and low field magnetic susceptibility. The sediment cores are also scanned and photographed and the visual core proprieties are quantified using a spectrometer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGMxzAMlbBI/AAAAAAAAAhY/4u5XPkEOwXQ/s1600-h/MachinerieCables.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGMxzAMlbBI/AAAAAAAAAhY/4u5XPkEOwXQ/s400/MachinerieCables.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5216067545721039890" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Machinery cables&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;     &lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;These measurements are all critical in order to achieve the goals of the AMOCINT project.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Last night we celebrated four birthdays that have taken place in the last three days. Transit periods are a good time to do this!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt;Thank you for following our journey, and have a wonderful week!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Your fellow teachers at sea&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2933223886149514161-7738455067370100376?l=amocint-pt.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/feeds/7738455067370100376/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2933223886149514161&amp;postID=7738455067370100376' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/7738455067370100376'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/7738455067370100376'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/2008/06/day-9-23jun-part-2.html' title='Day 9 (23Jun) - Part 2'/><author><name>Alexandre Costa</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGMowAEmOKI/AAAAAAAAAhQ/v5uZf4Ysp50/s72-c/Logo+teachers+at+sea.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2933223886149514161.post-7789165814813066965</id><published>2008-06-23T23:27:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T23:44:13.575Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sistema Calypso'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fractura de Charlie-Gibbs'/><title type='text'>Dia 9 (23Jun)</title><content type='html'>Coordenadas: 45˚37’ N 33˚02’ W  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Olá a todos!!!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Hoje o mar esteve bastante mais agitado e o navio não parou de balançar todo o dia. Ainda assim, não há sinais de enjoo por estas bandas. Continuámos o nosso percurso rumo à zona da fractura Charlie-Gibbs e, na parte da tarde como não houve perfurações, assistimos a uma palestra sobre alterações climáticas. Toda a gente aproveitou ainda para descansar um pouco.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Como vos disse ontem, vou descrever o equipamento de carotagem Calypso. Trata-se de um sistema que permite obter testemunhos de sedimentos até cerca de 60 metros de comprimento e desenvolvido por Y. Balut no R/V Marion Dufresne. Esta capacidade de recolha de amostras de sedimentos oceânicos faz com que este seja um navio único no que à oceanografia diz respeito.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGCilmHbq2I/AAAAAAAAAgY/UsHH5duRKO8/s1600-h/calypso_corer_pt_pic.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGCilmHbq2I/AAAAAAAAAgY/UsHH5duRKO8/s400/calypso_corer_pt_pic.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5215347135265614690" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Sistema Calypso&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Após o navio ter fixado a sua posição sobre o local da estação de amostragem o equipamento é colocado na água com ao auxílio de uma grua. O tubo de aço do sistema Calypso, bem como o tubo de PVC com um diâmetro de cerca de 10 cm que está no seu interior e o lastro com 3 a 10 toneladas mantêm-se unidos ao navio através de um sistema de ancoragem por onde passa a um cabo de kevlar, com densidade 1. Esta característica do cabo faz com que, uma vez dentro de água, não adicione qualquer peso ao resto do equipamento e diminua as tensões a que o sistema de recolha do equipamento para o convés é sujeito. Numa das extremidades do sistema de ancoragem é colocado ainda um contra-peso com cerca de 100 quilogramas.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;O equipamento desce a uma velocidade de cerca de 1 m/s até próximo do fundo do oceano e quando o contra-peso atinge a superfície o sistema de ancoragem é desbloqueado e o tubo e o lastro continuam em queda livre penetrando os sedimentos. A ogiva colocada na extremidade do tubo é fundamental quer para perfurar como para manter os sedimentos no seu interior. Segue-se a recolha do tubo de carotagem para o convés.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Uma vez no convés o tubo de PVC é retirado do interior do tubo de aço e dividido em secções de 1,5 m. Estas secções são então cortadas em duas metades uma das quais é descrita, fotografada e sujeita a análises preliminares; e a outra metade é embalada de forma a ser preservada e arquivada. Ambas são depois armazenadas em câmaras frigoríficas e levadas para os laboratórios das várias equipas de investigação envolvidas no projecto.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGZKyqI3ToI/AAAAAAAAAio/4ehxD7hpnMM/s1600-h/cores2.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGZKyqI3ToI/AAAAAAAAAio/4ehxD7hpnMM/s400/cores2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5216939452520681090" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Divisão em secções das duas metades da amostra recolhida&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2933223886149514161-7789165814813066965?l=amocint-pt.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/feeds/7789165814813066965/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2933223886149514161&amp;postID=7789165814813066965' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/7789165814813066965'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/7789165814813066965'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/2008/06/dia-9-23jun.html' title='Dia 9 (23Jun)'/><author><name>Alexandre Costa</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SGCilmHbq2I/AAAAAAAAAgY/UsHH5duRKO8/s72-c/calypso_corer_pt_pic.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2933223886149514161.post-7439920508978547001</id><published>2008-06-23T15:57:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T23:44:13.924Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Recolha de Sedimentos'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Açores'/><title type='text'>Day 9 (23Jun)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SF_YUKsXG8I/AAAAAAAAAfw/zYvFN2eWf4k/s1600-h/Logo+teachers+at+sea.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SF_YUKsXG8I/AAAAAAAAAfw/zYvFN2eWf4k/s200/Logo+teachers+at+sea.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5215124734497725378" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Location: 43° 58' N - 32° 36' W &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Temperature: 20°C&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Wind: 25.5 Knots - 310°/North&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Hello fellow teachers!&lt;/div&gt;      &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;After taking cores, there are many things that we must do. For instance, during this time university professors on the cruise give talks about various topics related to the larger topic. For instance, Dr. Kiki (Helga) Kleiven has presented information about marine sedimentation and the properties of seawater and ocean circulation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt;The lectures help us to understand more about the significance of studying ocean sediments.&lt;/div&gt;      &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;We also visited the bridge where we saw how complicated and sophisticated the equipment necessary to control the ship  is.  Despite this very technological aspect, the people controlling the equipment are absolutely indispensable. For instance, if the wind is very  strong during a coring effort, someone must control the equipment to keep  the boat steady manually with a joystick. Otherwise, coring would be impossible during high winds.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SF_XkywL1WI/AAAAAAAAAfo/Mn13QQcs3Bg/s1600-h/snake.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SF_XkywL1WI/AAAAAAAAAfo/Mn13QQcs3Bg/s400/snake.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5215123920617461090" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt;We also visited the building housing the winch system and the  network of cables necessary for lowering coring equipment to the ocean floor, into the sediment, and back out again. This equipment can withstand  an incredible amount of tension, (~ 1.50 x 10&lt;sup&gt;5&lt;/sup&gt; N on the cable to  extract the core, but this tension must be reduced to ~ 200 N on the cabledrums) and is designed very carefully for its purpose. For instance, the density of the cable allows it to be weightless in water so that it does not add extra weight to the system. Seeing this equipment  made us appreciate how difficult it is to launch and recover the cores. We have had first-hand experience with these difficulties. Our first attempted Calypso core in the Azores was lost due to the bolts failing. We have no idea why this happened. Our second Calypso core  in the Azores was very bent. We are unsure what the core hit to cause this to happen. Yet, a little longer than a week into the mission we have already been able to collect many excellent samples which we  have already begun analyzing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;That's all for now. Have a nice day!&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Your fellow teachers at sea&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Hélder - Jean - Gertrud - Catalina - Angela - Carlo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2933223886149514161-7439920508978547001?l=amocint-pt.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/feeds/7439920508978547001/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2933223886149514161&amp;postID=7439920508978547001' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/7439920508978547001'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/7439920508978547001'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/2008/06/day-9-23jun.html' title='Day 9 (23Jun)'/><author><name>Alexandre Costa</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SF_YUKsXG8I/AAAAAAAAAfw/zYvFN2eWf4k/s72-c/Logo+teachers+at+sea.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2933223886149514161.post-6420977366603357585</id><published>2008-06-22T23:54:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T23:44:14.381Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sistema Casq'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Refeições'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sistema Calypso'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Açores'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fractura de Charlie-Gibbs'/><title type='text'>Day 8 (22 Jun)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SF_YhuFxyWI/AAAAAAAAAf4/Qzs1CVaOxjo/s1600-h/Logo+teachers+at+sea.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SF_YhuFxyWI/AAAAAAAAAf4/Qzs1CVaOxjo/s200/Logo+teachers+at+sea.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5215124967337871714" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Position: 38,33° N / 31,15° W &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Weather: Light Skies&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Temp: 20,8°C&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Wind:  12,6Nts&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hello dear fellow Teachers!&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;              &lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have now reached the Azores and have started coring. First out was a CASQ core at 2024m depth. It takes about an hour or more to prepare the CASQ and then it takes over half an hour to lower it (1m/sec),  and finally over an hour to pull it up again (0.2m/sec when still in the sediment and then again 1m/sec). It takes another hour to dismantle  it before we start to process the core. It is an interesting procedure  to watch. It is a very dangerous and difficult job for the crew members who are actually operating the coring equipment. After the CASQ the Multicore was sent down, and then the Calypso core. However, bad luck hit us and the whole score equipment got stuck in the bottom and was lost. We then transit to another site 4 hours away, where we took a CASQ and a Calypso score. The Calypso did bend this time, but we didn't loose it. We are now on our way to the next site, located in a region called the Charlie-Gibbs fracture zone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SF9KShqkczI/AAAAAAAAAeA/5KAk08NhmLQ/s1600-h/casq2.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SF9KShqkczI/AAAAAAAAAeA/5KAk08NhmLQ/s320/casq2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5214968575653344050" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;A Casq core&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;   &lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt;Today we would like to thank you for showing your interest for AMOCINT. We will try to answer some questions that we still haven't covered in earlier emails.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;   &lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt;So, why not tell you about the meals onboard? This is a French boat, of course with a French chef. Everything is very tasty and well prepared.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;       &lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Breakfast: Breakfast is served in a typically French style, with  white bread and jam. In addition there is coffee, tea, milk, orange juice and cornflakes. Sometimes there are also leftovers from the night before, like meat. Breakfast is served between 7:00 and 8:30am. Northern Europeans have to adapt a bit, because they are more used to fullkorn bread, muesli and salty food for breakfast, but so far they are adjusting well.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;       &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;    &lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lunch: This is served in a really nice French style with waiters and everything. Everyone has their own assigned napkin and we sit at nicely covered tables. First the waiters serve the appetizer, which  is usually some fresh vegetables or something warm. Next the main course is served. This is often a meat or fish dish with rice, potatoes or vegetables, and is always nicely flavored and prepared. If you are still hungry the waiters show up with a tray of assorted cheeses from different regions of France to choose from. Finally it  is time for dessert! Everyday there is a new dessert on the menu. This  is a thrill for some of us!&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;   &lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dinner: The main difference between lunch and dinner is that fresh fruit is served for dessert with dinner. Both lunch and dinner are served with white and red wine and water as well.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;    &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Due to the shifts, lunch is served at both 11:00 and 12:15. Dinner is at 19:00 and at 20:15. It is unusual for some of us to go eight hours without food, but we can find us some small snacks in the kitchen in between meals if we want to.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt;After the meals, good coffee is served in the bar, probably a French roast. It is dark and full of flavor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;That?s all for to today. Have a nice Sunday!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Your fellow teachers at sea&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Hélder - Jean - Gertrud - Catalina - Angela - Carlo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;   &lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt;PS!  Remember you can follow the rout on the &lt;a title="http://www.ipev.fr" href="http://www.ipev.fr/"&gt;www.ipev.fr&lt;/a&gt; - position des navires Marion Dufresne. And unfortunately, we have had problems sending photos to many of you. We will look in to that problem.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2933223886149514161-6420977366603357585?l=amocint-pt.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/feeds/6420977366603357585/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2933223886149514161&amp;postID=6420977366603357585' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/6420977366603357585'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/6420977366603357585'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/2008/06/day-8-22-jun.html' title='Day 8 (22 Jun)'/><author><name>Alexandre Costa</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SF_YhuFxyWI/AAAAAAAAAf4/Qzs1CVaOxjo/s72-c/Logo+teachers+at+sea.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2933223886149514161.post-5709028252514948948</id><published>2008-06-22T22:45:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T23:44:14.557Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Recolha de Sedimentos'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sistema Casq'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Flores'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Refeições'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sistema Calypso'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Açores'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fractura de Charlie-Gibbs'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Corvo'/><title type='text'>Dia 8 (22Jun)</title><content type='html'>Coordenadas: 42˚38’ N 32˚16’ W  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Olá a todos!!!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Como vos disse ontem o tratamento dos sedimentos recolhidos durante o dia de ontem e madrugada de hoje deram-nos bastante trabalho. No entanto, ao terminarmos o turno às oito da manhã, como é Domingo, tivemos direito a um pequeno-almoço especial que incluiu croissants recheados com chocolate. Estavam uma delícia…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SF_Y-u6_VWI/AAAAAAAAAgA/mfLaIbZrljM/s1600-h/laundry.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SF_Y-u6_VWI/AAAAAAAAAgA/mfLaIbZrljM/s400/laundry.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5215125465777263970" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Para além da Ciência, às vezes também é preciso lavar roupa.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Entretanto, durante a madrugada após se ter recolhido o tubo Calypso para o convés zarpámos rumo à região da falha Charlie-Gibbs onde, em 1967, o navio oceanográfico R/V Charcot conseguiu obter cerca de seis metros de sedimentos. Durante o cruzeiro MD168 AMOCINT pretende-se obter sedimentos mais profundos usando os equipamentos de carotagem Casq e eventualmente também o sistema Calypso (que vos descreverei amanhã detalhadamente).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;O Sol brilhou durante toda a manhã. Um pouco antes do almoço tivemos a oportunidade de avistar novamente terra firme. Passámos relativamente perto das ilhas das Flores e do Corvo, Todavia, algum tempo depois, ao atravessarmos o paralelo 40 deixou de brilhar e a tarde foi um pouco cinzenta e chuvosa. Isso fez com que nos lembrássemos que nos esperam condições climatéricas bem mais adversas e todos receamos o frio com que certamente nos iremos deparar nas latitudes para onde nos deslocamos. O mar esteve também mais agitado do que durante o resto da semana.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Durante a equipa de professores a bordo aproveitou para escrever e actualizar as notícias que temos enviado a professores de escolas de vários países relativas ao cruzeiro e ao projecto AMOCINT. Aproveitei ainda para lavar a roupa suja.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Esperam-nos cerca de dois dias de “trânsito” até à Charlie-Gibbs.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2933223886149514161-5709028252514948948?l=amocint-pt.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/feeds/5709028252514948948/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2933223886149514161&amp;postID=5709028252514948948' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/5709028252514948948'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/5709028252514948948'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/2008/06/dia-8-22jun.html' title='Dia 8 (22Jun)'/><author><name>Alexandre Costa</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SF_Y-u6_VWI/AAAAAAAAAgA/mfLaIbZrljM/s72-c/laundry.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2933223886149514161.post-931968792828356880</id><published>2008-06-21T05:21:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T23:44:14.867Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Alto-Mar'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Palestra'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Celtics'/><title type='text'>Dia 6 (20Jun)</title><content type='html'>Coordenadas: 35˚43’ N 24˚ 21’ W  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Olá a todos!!!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;O mar esteve calmo durante todo o dia e continuámos “em trânsito” em direcção à região dos Açores. Choveu um pouco durante a manhã e fez-se sentir vento. Ainda assim, nem toda a gente se apercebeu disso, pois ontem à noite celebrámos o aniversário do George Oggian (um simpático técnico laboratorial de Bordéus) e houve uma grande e bela festa a bordo. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Ao ler os emails que recebemos de manhã fiquei super contente por saber que os Celtics, de Boston, venceram o sexto jogo da final da NBA contra os Lakers, de Los Angeles, tendo conseguido o seu 17.º título (e o respectivo anel) 22 anos depois da sua última conquista.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SF9IDIeWJ0I/AAAAAAAAAdw/mvYSMuqb8fg/s1600-h/lecture.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SF9IDIeWJ0I/AAAAAAAAAdw/mvYSMuqb8fg/s400/lecture.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5214966112169895746" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Palestra sobre sedimentação marinha&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;À tarde a equipa de professores, após ter assistido a mais uma palestra sobre sedimentação marinha e o estudo dos paleoclimas, aproveitou para avançar com a divulgação do projecto AMOCINT e do trabalho desenvolvido a bordo do R/V Marion Dufresne quer pelos cientistas, quer pelos restantes membros da tripulação.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SF9Hsg99SSI/AAAAAAAAAdo/kUI53e4IIIs/s1600-h/teachers.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SF9Hsg99SSI/AAAAAAAAAdo/kUI53e4IIIs/s400/teachers.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5214965723607943458" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Trabalhando na divulgação&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Amanhã de manhã teremos muito trabalho, pois chegaremos ao local da primeira estação de recolha de sedimentos na zona dos Açores e serão recolhidos vários testemunhos de sedimentos. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2933223886149514161-931968792828356880?l=amocint-pt.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/feeds/931968792828356880/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2933223886149514161&amp;postID=931968792828356880' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/931968792828356880'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/931968792828356880'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/2008/06/dia-6-20jun.html' title='Dia 6 (20Jun)'/><author><name>Alexandre Costa</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SF9IDIeWJ0I/AAAAAAAAAdw/mvYSMuqb8fg/s72-c/lecture.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2933223886149514161.post-7541280393338813418</id><published>2008-06-21T04:23:00.007+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T23:44:15.633Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Recolha de Sedimentos'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sistema Casq'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sistema Calypso'/><title type='text'>Day 6 (20 Jun)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SF_Zc8808nI/AAAAAAAAAgI/cf11u2btxNw/s1600-h/Logo+teachers+at+sea.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SF_Zc8808nI/AAAAAAAAAgI/cf11u2btxNw/s200/Logo+teachers+at+sea.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5215125984939143794" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Position: 35°43N / 24°21W&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;You can follow the rout on &lt;a title="http://www.ipev.fr" href="http://www.ipev.fr/"&gt;www.ipev.fr&lt;/a&gt; – position des naires Marion  Dufresne&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dear fellow Teachers,&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt;Tonight we are still travelling towards the Azores. We had a rainy morning with wind about 50km an hour (ca 27 Nts). But now the beautiful sun is shining again. We have a place we call the “beach”  in front of the ship. There we find especially the Scandinavians soaked in sunoil and sunrays! In their defense, they come from the rainiest city in Norway and therefore need to store vitamin-D for the wintertime. Since there is no work today, most people are busy  writing emails and reports, or just resting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Taking Cores&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt;     &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt;The sediment on the ocean floor represents layers of geological history. Therefore, if we can sample a vertical slice of this sediment, we will be able to obtain information about conditions during previous time periods.  This information will allow us to make connections between past, present, and future climate and circulation patterns. This is extremely important to understand the current warming trend within the context of other interglacial, or warming periods.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SF9G965UE3I/AAAAAAAAAdg/okXkVszxAPA/s1600-h/casq1.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SF9G965UE3I/AAAAAAAAAdg/okXkVszxAPA/s400/casq1.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5214964923113935730" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Casq coring system&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt;             &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt;It takes a lot of work and sophisticated equipment to take a  “slice,” or a core, of sediment. We use the Calypso coring system to acquire longer cores (maximum of about 60 meters). These longer cores are important to study more distant time periods. We are taking two other types of cores: Casq (or calypso squared) cores, and multi-cores. The Casq core is not as long as the Calypso core, but it provides undisturbed sediments. How much time is represented in a core depends on sedimentation rate and the length of the core. The multi-core is even shorter than the Casq core, however, it provides even greater detail about the surface layers of sediment. Also, the multi-corecovers a larger lateral area, and so gives us information about lateral variation of the sediment. We will discuss the equipment involved in more detail in a subsequent entry.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SF9FUBm8hzI/AAAAAAAAAdI/LuJB1qHTwiw/s1600-h/calypso1.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SF9FUBm8hzI/AAAAAAAAAdI/LuJB1qHTwiw/s400/calypso1.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5214963103849809714" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Calypso coring system&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt;             &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt;There are many factors that must be taken into account when choosing coring sites. First, we use echosounding to determine the depth, the topography of the sea floor, and the characteristics of the layers of sediment. The ship has electric engines because they are quiet, and will not interfere with the echosounding technology. Also this type  of engine allows the ship to remain stable during the coring operation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SF9F_GU3hmI/AAAAAAAAAdQ/Ex9wVDKLw9c/s1600-h/echosounding_station2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SF9F_GU3hmI/AAAAAAAAAdQ/Ex9wVDKLw9c/s400/echosounding_station2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5214963843850536546" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Echosounding profile&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt;Even though some sampling sites are pre-determined, it takes hours to find the site and position the ship. If the ship is moving coring is impossible.  The topography at the sites must be flat and at the apex of a dome-shaped peak (so the sample is not contaminated by slipping sediment).  The area must have enough parallel sediment layers to be sampled, and the sediments must be of a certain type (the area cannot be too rocky).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt;Our first core off the coast off Morocco was about 40 meters long. It was a bit bent due to the trigger not functioning properly. We were, however, able to process the sample, and the information will be very useful in reconstructing conditions during past interglacial periods. Now that we have one Casq core, one multi-core, and three Calypso cores from our first two sites, we are ready to process the samples!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SF9FFVghk2I/AAAAAAAAAdA/vaSoWf52w2w/s1600-h/cores1.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SF9FFVghk2I/AAAAAAAAAdA/vaSoWf52w2w/s400/cores1.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5214962851493548898" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Processing a core&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"&gt;In a later email we will detail some of the work that goes into processing and storing these samples. Since this is an interdisciplinary endeavor we will be able to detail many  applications of chemistry, physics, geology, oceanography, climatology and  biology, which we hope you will share with your students.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;     &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Your sailor team Teachers at Sea!&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Hélder – Angela – Catalina – Jean – Gertrud – Carlo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SF9LTPShaXI/AAAAAAAAAeQ/CjJmyhWwKdg/s1600-h/Logo+teachers+at+sea.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2933223886149514161-7541280393338813418?l=amocint-pt.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/feeds/7541280393338813418/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2933223886149514161&amp;postID=7541280393338813418' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/7541280393338813418'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/7541280393338813418'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/2008/06/day-6-20-jun.html' title='Day 6 (20 Jun)'/><author><name>Alexandre Costa</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SF_Zc8808nI/AAAAAAAAAgI/cf11u2btxNw/s72-c/Logo+teachers+at+sea.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2933223886149514161.post-3323775969643331960</id><published>2008-06-20T08:29:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T23:44:16.528Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Margem Continental Marrocos'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fósseis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Foramníferos'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Euro2008'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='R/V Marion Dufresne'/><title type='text'>Dia 5 (19Jun)</title><content type='html'>Coordenadas: 35º 43’ N 24º 21’ W &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Olá a todos!!!&lt;/div&gt;         &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;A manhã hoje foi tranquila. Os dois primeiros testemunhos de sedimentos recolhidos ao largo de Marrocos já foram analisados e arquivados para poderem ser estudados mais detalhadamente nos laboratórios das várias equipas de investigação envolvidas. Os sedimentos colhidos no fundo do oceano, que à primeira vista parecem ser formados apenas por lama, quando observados à lupa revelaram alguns dos seus segredos… Pudemos verificar que para além das argilas existem também fósseis de vários organismos como foraminíferos, radiolários, moluscos e equinodermes.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;     &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SFtdjQeH-DI/AAAAAAAAAbg/llGrVYOO6ys/s1600-h/lupa_forams.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SFtdjQeH-DI/AAAAAAAAAbg/llGrVYOO6ys/s400/lupa_forams.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213863853909604402" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Observando os foramníferos à lupa&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SFtd4q03VEI/AAAAAAAAAbo/v9GoFVJtExI/s1600-h/fosseis.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SFtd4q03VEI/AAAAAAAAAbo/v9GoFVJtExI/s400/fosseis.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213864221761557570" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Imagem de alguns dos foramníferos recolhidos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Tivemos ainda a oportunidade de visitar uma zona do navio onde estão os cabos que permitem recolher o equipamento de carotagem para o convés. Trata-se de um sistema complexo que permite a acumulação de tensões de cerca de 20 a 25 toneladas (!) enquanto puxa o equipamento de carotagem e os sedimentos do fundo do mar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SFteuokgJpI/AAAAAAAAAbw/XdCUQCiw5wc/s1600-h/cabos.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SFteuokgJpI/AAAAAAAAAbw/XdCUQCiw5wc/s400/cabos.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213865148868994706" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Junto aos cabos para recolha do equipamento de carotagem&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;      &lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Apesar de hoje não terem sido efectuadas perfurações, tivemos a oportunidade de observar que há sempre trabalho para fazer a bordo, como a manutenção do navio e reparações de vários equipamentos. Tal como em Nova Iorque, a cidade que, como dizia Frank Sinatra, nunca dorme… no Marion Dufresne há sempre gente acordada e a desempenhar as mais diversas funções.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Após o almoço tivemos oportunidade de assistir a mais uma palestra.  Os temas apresentados eram relativos à circulação oceânica e o registo geológico das alterações climáticas nos sedimentos oceânicos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;No final do dia fiquei ainda a saber que a nossa selecção vai para casa mais cedo… Ainda assim, como podem ver, a boa disposição e a amizade prevalecem.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SFtdPXxDw8I/AAAAAAAAAbY/jeKP-tczjh0/s1600-h/pt-de.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SFtdPXxDw8I/AAAAAAAAAbY/jeKP-tczjh0/s400/pt-de.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213863512270685122" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;   &lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;A amizade é mais importante que o resultado...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Aquele abraço,&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;HP&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2933223886149514161-3323775969643331960?l=amocint-pt.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/feeds/3323775969643331960/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2933223886149514161&amp;postID=3323775969643331960' title='2 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/3323775969643331960'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/3323775969643331960'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/2008/06/dia-5-19jun.html' title='Dia 5 (19Jun)'/><author><name>Alexandre Costa</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SFtdjQeH-DI/AAAAAAAAAbg/llGrVYOO6ys/s72-c/lupa_forams.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2933223886149514161.post-4476377027139517661</id><published>2008-06-18T18:58:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T23:44:16.655Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Core-Education Team'/><title type='text'>Day 4 (18th of June) - Invitation</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SF_Zo1SmtVI/AAAAAAAAAgQ/8UjlLBr3bHQ/s1600-h/Logo+teachers+at+sea.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SF_Zo1SmtVI/AAAAAAAAAgQ/8UjlLBr3bHQ/s200/Logo+teachers+at+sea.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5215126189041431890" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Dear fellow teachers,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-US"&gt;We have finally begun our journey on the Marion Dufresne! We are all excited and looking forward to this experience of a lifetime. We are five secondary (high school) science teachers from five different countries: Jean Aufauvre (France), Gertrud Cigén (Norway), Catalina Sureda (Spain), Hélder Pereira (Portugal), and Angela Skeeles-Worley (United States).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;st1:city&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-US"&gt;Marion&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-US"&gt; Dufresne departed from the port in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;st1:city&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-US"&gt;Las Palmas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-US"&gt; in the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-US"&gt;Canary Islands&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-US"&gt; on June 15, 2008. Hélder experienced temperatures around 37ºC (105ºF) in Sevilla after traveling by bus from &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;st1:city&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-US"&gt;Loulé&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-US"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;st1:country-region&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-US"&gt;Portugal&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-US"&gt;. This was Angela?s first trip to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-US"&gt;Europe&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-US"&gt;, and the only time Gertrud will visit the beach this year. Our stay in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;st1:city&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-US"&gt;Las Palmas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-US"&gt; was exciting not only because it marked the beginning of our journey, but also because it marked the beginning of new professional relationships and friendships. After leaving the Port in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;st1:city&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-US"&gt;Las Palmas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-US"&gt;, which we enjoyed for an extra day, we had to adjust to life on board.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Climate change is an immediate global concern. It is difficult to understand the possible consequences of climate change without studying the conditions of previous warming periods (known as interglacial periods). The purpose of the AMOCINT (Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation during Interglacials) project is to better understand conditions during past interglacial periods through the sampling of sea floor sediments. This will be further explored in future emails!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While we are here we will participate fully in a collaborative research endeavor, and work with scientists, graduate students, and crew members. We would like to share with you the goals and results of the scientific research, the methods employed, and the experience of life on a research vessel.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-US"&gt; We invite you to join us on the Marion Dufresne by emailing us with any questions you may have in any of the languages that are being used onboard (English, Portuguese, French, Spanish, Catalan, Italian, Norwegian, German, Ukrainian and even Malagasy). We also hope you will be able to use this information to bring this experience back to your students.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-US"&gt;Teachers at Sea&lt;br /&gt;Core-Education Team&lt;br /&gt;Hélder Pereira, Jean Aufauvre, Angela Skeeles-Worley, Gertrud Cigén, Catalina Sureda and Carlo Laj&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2933223886149514161-4476377027139517661?l=amocint-pt.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/feeds/4476377027139517661/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2933223886149514161&amp;postID=4476377027139517661' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/4476377027139517661'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/4476377027139517661'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/2008/06/day-4-18th-of-june-invitation.html' title='Day 4 (18th of June) - Invitation'/><author><name>Alexandre Costa</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SF_Zo1SmtVI/AAAAAAAAAgQ/8UjlLBr3bHQ/s72-c/Logo+teachers+at+sea.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2933223886149514161.post-9084579797677371123</id><published>2008-06-18T17:02:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T23:44:16.791Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mapa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Celtics'/><title type='text'>Dia 4 (18Jun)</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Coordenadas: 32˚38’ N 15˚ 35’ W&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Olá a todos!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Hoje finalmente consegui dormir algumas horas extra… O dia começou com um belo e tranquilo pequeno-almoço. A seguir fui queimar algumas calorias num dos espaços desportivos do Marion&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Dufresne. Deu para jogar um pouco de ba­dmington e fazer um lançamentos numa tabela de basquetebol enquanto pensava que seria bom voltar a ver os meus orgulhosos verdes, i.e. os Boston Celtics, ganharem mais uma final da NBA.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Já da parte da tarde foi feita uma breve palestra para explicar, de forma mais aprofundada, os objectivos do projecto AMOCINT e foram anunciadas algumas alterações à localização das estações de carotagem para a recolha de sedimentos. Podem ver o novo mapa com a sua localização.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SFn37QE9gOI/AAAAAAAAAaw/KpKNO_6hAyo/s400/amocint_coring_sites.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SFn37QE9gOI/AAAAAAAAAaw/KpKNO_6hAyo/s400/amocint_coring_sites.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;A seguir à palestra o grupo de professores a bordo teve a oportunidade de visitar a ponte do navio e ver o local em que é controlada quase tudo o que ocorre navio. Nessa altura ficámos a saber que iríamos passar entre as ilhas de Porto Santo e a Madeira. Algumas horas depois pudemos voltar a ver terra firme desde que saímos de Las Palmas. Passámos a menos de 20 milhas da costa, pelo que voltámos a ter rede nos telemóveis e quase toda a gente a bordo aproveitou para ligar para casa… O mar estava calmo e não tenho palavras para descrever a paisagem. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Absolutamente espectacular!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2933223886149514161-9084579797677371123?l=amocint-pt.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/feeds/9084579797677371123/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2933223886149514161&amp;postID=9084579797677371123' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/9084579797677371123'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/9084579797677371123'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/2008/06/dia-4-18jun.html' title='Dia 4 (18Jun)'/><author><name>Alexandre Costa</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SFn37QE9gOI/AAAAAAAAAaw/KpKNO_6hAyo/s72-c/amocint_coring_sites.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2933223886149514161.post-6109987420429463522</id><published>2008-06-17T20:07:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T23:44:17.060Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Alto-Mar'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sistema Calypso'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Core-Education Team'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Margem Continental Marrocos'/><title type='text'>Dia 3 (17Jun)</title><content type='html'>Coordenadas: 30˚50’ N 10˚ 16’ W&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Olá a todos!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;O dia hoje começou cedo. Às 4 da manhã já estávamos a trabalhar. A nossa tarefa consistiu na preparação e tratamento dos testemunhos de sedimentos dos furos efectuados com o sistema Calypso. Este equipamento de carotagem (cujo funcionamento vos será explicado mais tarde) é formado, na zona superior, por um peso que é unido a longo tubo metálico no qual é introduzido um outro de plástico onde ficam os sedimentos recolhidos em cada furo. Após o tubo de plástico, com várias dezenas de metros, ter sido retirado do interior do tubo metálico efectuou-se o corte do tubo de plástico em secções de 1,5 metros. Estas secções foram então cortadas em duas metades uma das quais foi descrita, sendo fotografada a cada 2 cm, e sujeita a análises preliminares num aparelho chamado MST; a outra metade foi apenas embalada de forma a ser preservada e arquivada.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SFtgzoHO0lI/AAAAAAAAAcI/eKEFABpCO48/s1600-h/calypso1.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SFtgzoHO0lI/AAAAAAAAAcI/eKEFABpCO48/s400/calypso1.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213867433668825682" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;O sistema Calypso&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Algumas horas depois assistimos ao nascer do Sol no meio do oceano. Foi um momento belo e inspirador. A luz do Sol a incidir sobre a água com uma açor azul como eu nunca tinha visto é uma imagem que ficou bem marcada na minha memória. Simplesmente espectacular!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SFthOlDVz_I/AAAAAAAAAcQ/FKn-u2a0T5w/s1600-h/nascer_sol.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SFthOlDVz_I/AAAAAAAAAcQ/FKn-u2a0T5w/s400/nascer_sol.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213867896703668210" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;O nascer do sol no meio do Oceano&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Já na parte da tarde o grupo de professores da Core-Education Team teve a primeira reunião de trabalho de modo a definirmos quais as actividades que poderemos desenvolver, tendo em vista a divulgação do trabalho desenvolvido a bordo.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;No final da tarde teve início, após um período de pesquisa para encontra o lugar adequado foi efectuado o segundo furo Calypso na zona de Marrocos. Após a recolha do equipamento para o convés zarpámos em direcção ao mar dos Açores.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; Amanhã o dia dever ser mais calmo. Logo vos conto os detalhes da viagem.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2933223886149514161-6109987420429463522?l=amocint-pt.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/feeds/6109987420429463522/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2933223886149514161&amp;postID=6109987420429463522' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/6109987420429463522'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/6109987420429463522'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/2008/06/dia-3-17jun.html' title='Dia 3 (17Jun)'/><author><name>Alexandre Costa</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SFtgzoHO0lI/AAAAAAAAAcI/eKEFABpCO48/s72-c/calypso1.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2933223886149514161.post-6398230977833611023</id><published>2008-06-17T04:46:00.006+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T23:44:17.356Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Recolha de Sedimentos'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sistema Casq'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sistema Calypso'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Açores'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Margem Continental Marrocos'/><title type='text'>Dia 2 (16Jun)</title><content type='html'>Coordenadas: 30˚51’ N 10˚ 06’ W  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Olá a todos!!!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Ontem esqueci-me de vos dizer que fiquei no turno das 4h às 8h e das 16h às 20h. Como vos disse antes participam neste cruzeiro pessoas de vários países, pelo que terei como companheiros de jornada Gertrud Cigen (Teacher at Sea – Noruega); Hanno Kinkel (&lt;span style=""&gt;Institut für Geowissenschaften, Marine Paläoklimaforschung, Christian Albrechts Universität, Kiel – A&lt;/span&gt;lemanha); Kikki Kleiven (&lt;span style=""&gt;Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Univ. de Bergen&lt;/span&gt; – Noruega); Genna Patton, (Univ. de Chicago – EUA); Catalina Sureda-Carrio, (Teachers at Sea – Espanha); Catherine Kissel, Aurélie Van Toer, Camille Wanders, Georges Oggian, Nathalie Dubois, Stephano Bonelli, de Itália (&lt;span style=""&gt;Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;et de l´Environnement, Gif sur Yvette – França)&lt;/span&gt; e Martin Mellet (&lt;span style=""&gt;IPEV).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Como vêm não é só o navio que é grande… e a diversidade de línguas faladas não se fica por aqui, como vos contarei depois. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Por falar em línguas esta tarde fui chamado à cabine do comandante do navio que me pediu para traduzir um documento, enviado pelo Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros do nosso país, relativo à autorização para que o R/V Marion Dufresne possa cruzar as nossas águas territoriais e recolher amostras de sedimentos na região dos Açores.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Um pouco depois deste facto curioso, assistimos a uma breve sessão de esclarecimento sobre as regras básicas de segurança a cumprir a bordo do navio, deram-nos as instruções necessárias para vestirmos os fatos salva-vidas (que temos à nossa disposição em todas as cabines) a que se seguiu um exercício de simulacro de evacuação do navio em situação de emergência.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SFtiv15mAeI/AAAAAAAAAcg/nSt2VFv3U-M/s1600-h/casq1.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SFtiv15mAeI/AAAAAAAAAcg/nSt2VFv3U-M/s400/casq1.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213869567673500130" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;O sistema Casq&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Chegámos já de noite à margem continental de Marrocos e, após algum período de pesquisa do melhor local para perfurar, foi efectuada primeira carotagem Casq (que permite obter testemunhos de sedimentos curtos e quadrados. Apesar de inicialmente se pensar que os sedimentos tinham sido perdidos durante a colocação do equipamento no convés, verificou-se que se obteve testemunho de sedimentos, com cerca de 7 metros, correspondente à zona mais superficial do fundo do oceano. Efectuou-se também o primeiro lançamento do equipamento Calypso. Neste segundo furo as coisas não correram tão bem e, ao ser colocado no convés, verificámos que o tubo estava dobrado na parte superior. Devido a esta situação efectuou-se um segundo furo na mesma zona.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SFth5mNIarI/AAAAAAAAAcY/geFbSmEIJ8o/s1600-h/tubo_curva.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SFth5mNIarI/AAAAAAAAAcY/geFbSmEIJ8o/s400/tubo_curva.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213868635747543730" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;O tubo do sistema Calypso dobrado&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Amanhã iremos abrir os tubos e ver os primeiros sedimentos recolhidos nesta campanha oceanográfica. Logo vos conto como foi…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2933223886149514161-6398230977833611023?l=amocint-pt.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/feeds/6398230977833611023/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2933223886149514161&amp;postID=6398230977833611023' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/6398230977833611023'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/6398230977833611023'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/2008/06/dia-2.html' title='Dia 2 (16Jun)'/><author><name>Alexandre Costa</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SFtiv15mAeI/AAAAAAAAAcg/nSt2VFv3U-M/s72-c/casq1.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2933223886149514161.post-8788592467993824889</id><published>2008-06-15T23:10:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2008-06-19T17:17:34.489+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Alto-Mar'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sistema Casq'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='HAPS corer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sistema Calypso'/><title type='text'>Dia 1 (15Jun) – Noite</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Coordenadas: 29˚11’ N 13˚ 58’ W&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Olá a todos uma vez mais!!!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Na reunião com todos os participantes na missão oceanográfica ficámos a saber que, durante o cruzeiro, serão usados três tipos de equipamentos de carotagem para recolher sedimentos. O sistema Calypso (que permite obter testemunhos de sedimentos longos e circulares), o sistema Casq (que permite obter testemunhos de sedimentos curtos e quadrados) e um sistema &lt;i style=""&gt;multicorer&lt;/i&gt; que permite obter oitos testemunhos de sedimentos superficiais em simultâneo.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Os testemunhos de sedimentos recolhidos com os sistemas Calyspo e Casq serão divididos longitudinalmente em duas secções. Uma delas será descrita e sujeita a um conjunto de análises preliminares que serão realizadas a bordo e a outra metade será arquivada. Mais tarde farei uma descrição dos vários tipos de análises que serão efectuadas a bordo.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Amanhã faremos um exercício de segurança a bordo e uma visita detalhada às diferentes partes do navio, bem como a primeira perfuração.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2933223886149514161-8788592467993824889?l=amocint-pt.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/feeds/8788592467993824889/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2933223886149514161&amp;postID=8788592467993824889' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/8788592467993824889'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/8788592467993824889'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/2008/06/dia-1-noite.html' title='Dia 1 (15Jun) – Noite'/><author><name>Alexandre Costa</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2933223886149514161.post-738172912147036997</id><published>2008-06-15T19:02:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T23:44:17.564Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Partida'/><title type='text'>Dia 1 (15Jun) - Tarde</title><content type='html'>Olá a todos de novo!!!&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Coordenadas: 20˚10’ N 15˚ 20’ W&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Chegou finalmente a hora. O navio vai partir!!! &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Era o momento pelo qual todos esperávamos e correspondeu a todas as expectativas. Foi extraordinário! Primeiro as manobras dentro do porto. Não é fácil manobrar um navio tão grande num espaço limitado como o do porto. No entanto, tudo correu bem.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SFn5hQJm1lI/AAAAAAAAAa4/61DdCeOriDI/s400/md_las_palmas.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SFn5hQJm1lI/AAAAAAAAAa4/61DdCeOriDI/s400/md_las_palmas.JPG" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;O Marion Dufresne no porto antes de partir&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Toda a gente foi para a parte superior do convés de onde se tem uma vista privilegiada para todas as direcções. Estávamos todos super-excitados. Mesmo quem já participou noutros cruzeiros oceanográficos tinha um grande sorriso nos lábios. O meu ia de orelha a orelha… &lt;span style="font-family:Wingdings;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;J&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Ver o porto ficar para trás, a cidade e depois toda a ilha a ficar cada vez mais pequena fez com que nos apercebêssemos que iremos passar as próximas três semanas sem voltar a pôr o pé em terra firme. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;É hora de dar início ao trabalho.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Voltámos para o interior do navio e teve lugar a primeira reunião com todos os elementos das equipas de investigação, da equipa de professores e dos estudantes universitários que participam na missão. Ao todo éramos cerca de 40 pessoas.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;As duas chefes deste cruzeiro oceanográfico, Catherine Kissel e Kikki Kleiven, fizeram uma breve descrição do projecto AMOCINT e explicaram-nos quais são os objectivos da missão. Ambas abordaram ainda vários aspectos práticos do trabalho a realizar a bordo. A informação pela qual todos aguardavam com mais expectativa tinha a ver com o turno em que irão trabalhar. Ficámos a saber que as equipas serão divididas em três turnos: um grupo trabalhará entre a meia-noite e as quatro da manhã; o seguinte entre as quatro e as oito da manhã e o último turno entre as oito e o meio-dia. Ao meio-dia a equipa do primeiro turno volta ao trabalho e assim sucessivamente. Desta forma toda a gente trabalhará oitos horas por dia. Acreditem que não vai ser fácil, pois diz quem sabe que o trabalho que nos espera é duro. O chefe de operações, Xavier Morin, falou-nos também sobre algumas regras de segurança e higiene a ter em atenção, nomeadamente a necessidade de utilizar capacete e um tipo de calçado adequado no convés. Como vamos ficar cheios de lama, toda a gente tem também mudar de roupa quando sai do convés para não sujar o interior do navio.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2933223886149514161-738172912147036997?l=amocint-pt.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/feeds/738172912147036997/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2933223886149514161&amp;postID=738172912147036997' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/738172912147036997'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/738172912147036997'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/2008/06/dia-1-tarde.html' title='Dia 1 (15Jun) - Tarde'/><author><name>Alexandre Costa</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SFn5hQJm1lI/AAAAAAAAAa4/61DdCeOriDI/s72-c/md_las_palmas.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2933223886149514161.post-4304008842944153101</id><published>2008-06-15T15:45:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T23:44:17.743Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Partida'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Las Palmas'/><title type='text'>Dia 1 - Manhã e Início da tarde</title><content type='html'>Olá a todos!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chegou finalmente o grande dia! Durante a manhã o navio foi sujeito a uma última inspecção de forma a assegurar que teremos uma viagem sem problemas. A hora de partida será às 16horas e toda a gente terá de estar no navio uma hora antes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Antes do almoço aproveitámos para regressar à cidade e acabámos por subir a um dos aparelhos vulcânicos que existem nas imediações de Las Palmas e que constituem uma área protegida. A paisagem é deslumbrante.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SF9M5aKkiAI/AAAAAAAAAeg/_CfzRwW7wQw/s1600-h/hp_las_palmas.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SF9M5aKkiAI/AAAAAAAAAeg/_CfzRwW7wQw/s400/hp_las_palmas.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5214971442678237186" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;HP em Las Palmas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;De regresso à cidade almoçámos umas tapas numa tasca e voltámos ao navio por volta das 15h. O grande momento aproxima-se. Até já!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2933223886149514161-4304008842944153101?l=amocint-pt.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/feeds/4304008842944153101/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2933223886149514161&amp;postID=4304008842944153101' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/4304008842944153101'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/4304008842944153101'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/2008/06/dia-1-incio-da-tarde.html' title='Dia 1 - Manhã e Início da tarde'/><author><name>Alexandre Costa</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SF9M5aKkiAI/AAAAAAAAAeg/_CfzRwW7wQw/s72-c/hp_las_palmas.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2933223886149514161.post-8608930432169078981</id><published>2008-06-14T20:53:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T23:44:17.912Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Vulcanismo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Santa Catalina'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Las Palmas'/><title type='text'>Dia 0 (14Jun)</title><content type='html'>Olá a todos!!!&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;De manhã cedo os participantes no cruzeiro MD168 AMOCINT foram transportados até ao molhe de Santa Catalina, no porto de Las Palmas, de maneira a pudessem instalar-se no R/V Marion Dufresne. Toda a gente foi bem recebida e recebeu um cartão de identificação que terá de usar enquanto permanecer no navio. De facto ver o navio nas fotografias é uma coisa e estar ao lado ou no seu interior é uma coisa completamente diferente.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SFn6QQUXBtI/AAAAAAAAAbA/WQuhazw3w1g/s400/md_las_palmas-2.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SFn6QQUXBtI/AAAAAAAAAbA/WQuhazw3w1g/s400/md_las_palmas-2.JPG" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Ver o navio nas fotografias é uma coisa e estar ao seu lado é uma coisa completamente diferente...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;O almoço foi servido no navio e, tal como toda a gente me tinha dito, foi genial. Uma entrada, dois pratos, queijos e fruta. As bebidas à disposição são muito diversificadas e incluem os três tipos de vinho mais comuns: branco, rosé e tinto.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Da parte da tarde aproveitámos para visitar e dar um passeio pela cidade. Andámos junto à praia pelo passeio marítimo e, pela cor da areia, deu para ver bem que a ilha tem origem vulcânica. Além disso observando a paisagem com atenção conseguem ver-se alguns aparelhos vulcânicos.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Aproveitámos para fazer algumas compras de última hora e regressámos ao navio.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:Calibri;font-size:11;"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2933223886149514161-8608930432169078981?l=amocint-pt.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/feeds/8608930432169078981/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2933223886149514161&amp;postID=8608930432169078981' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/8608930432169078981'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/8608930432169078981'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/2008/06/dia-0.html' title='Dia 0 (14Jun)'/><author><name>Alexandre Costa</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vwdAf3BQZt8/SFn6QQUXBtI/AAAAAAAAAbA/WQuhazw3w1g/s72-c/md_las_palmas-2.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2933223886149514161.post-8366419947334907655</id><published>2008-06-13T22:49:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2008-06-19T17:28:18.601+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gran Canária'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sevilha'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tenerife'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Las Palmas'/><title type='text'>Dia -1 - Viagem até Las Palmas</title><content type='html'>Olá a todos!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Hoje, tendo como destino ao arquipélago das Canárias, parti bem cedo de Faro num autocarro com destino a Sevilha (estava um calor de morrer, 37&amp;amp;#73ºC imaginem). Ali apanhei o avião até Las Palmas, situada na ilha Gran Canaria. A viagem durou cerca de duas horas, correu tudo bem e consegui tirar algumas fotos da ilha de Tenerife. Já em Las Palmas (onde a temperatura era bem agradáve) era esperado por um agente da autoridade marítima que conduziu até ao Hotel que tinha reservado. Ali encontrei outros professores, estudantes, marinheiros, mecânicos e outros elementos da tripulação do R/V Marion Dufresne que irão participar no cruzeiro MD168 AMOCINT.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2933223886149514161-8366419947334907655?l=amocint-pt.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/feeds/8366419947334907655/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2933223886149514161&amp;postID=8366419947334907655' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/8366419947334907655'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/8366419947334907655'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/2008/06/dia-1.html' title='Dia -1 - Viagem até Las Palmas'/><author><name>Alexandre Costa</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2933223886149514161.post-1521347947023706092</id><published>2008-06-13T19:20:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-06-19T17:25:28.402+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sevilha'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Vôo Canárias(ida)'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Las Palmas'/><title type='text'>Dia -1 (13 de Junho)</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Olá a todos!!!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Hoje, tendo como destino ao arquipélago das Canárias, parti bem cedo de Faro num autocarro com destino a Sevilha (estava um calor de morrer, 37˚C imaginem). Ali apanhei o avião até Las Palmas, situada na ilha Gran Canaria. A viagem durou cerca de duas horas, correu tudo bem e consegui tirar algumas fotos da ilha de Tenerife. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Já em Las Palmas (onde a temperatura era bem agradável) era esperado por um agente da autoridade marítima que conduziu até ao Hotel que tinha reservado. Ali encontrei outros professores, estudantes, marinheiros, mecânicos e outros elementos da tripulação do R/V Marion Dufresne que irão participar no cruzeiro MD168 AMOCINT.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2933223886149514161-1521347947023706092?l=amocint-pt.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/feeds/1521347947023706092/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2933223886149514161&amp;postID=1521347947023706092' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/1521347947023706092'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/1521347947023706092'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/2008/06/dia-1-13-de-junho.html' title='Dia -1 (13 de Junho)'/><author><name>Alexandre Costa</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2933223886149514161.post-3470536645009606629</id><published>2008-06-10T10:30:00.006+01:00</published><updated>2008-06-11T01:10:15.959+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='AMOCINT'/><title type='text'>Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)</title><content type='html'>&lt;P align="justify"&gt;A Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) é um sistema de circulação oceânica que transporta, à superfície, águas quentes para Norte e, em profundidade, águas frias para Sul. À medida que a água quente liberta calor para a atmosfera torna-se mais densa e afunda-se. Em profundidade a água fria regressa lentamente para os trópicos. Este processo é igualmente conhecido por circulação termo-halina do Atlântico Norte e contribui para a regulação do clima nas latitudes elevadas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;A onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.whoi.edu/cms/images/oceanus/GlobeCurrentsMap_550_47170.jpg"&gt;&lt;IMG STYLE='cursor: pointer; cursor: pointer; width: 200px' src="http://www.whoi.edu/cms/images/oceanus/GlobeCurrentsMap_550_47170.jpg" border="0" alt="© E. Paul Oberlander, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution"&gt;&lt;/A&gt; &lt;br /&gt;© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a010000/a010031/oceanconvey.mpg"&gt;Vê aqui uma animação da AMOC (QuickTime)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;© NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;SPAN STYLE='font-weight: 700'&gt;Ler mais:&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;A target="_blank" href="http://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/viewArticle.do?id=17906"&gt;[1] The Once and Future Circulation of the Ocean&lt;/A&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;A target="_blank" href="http://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/viewArticle.do?id=20727"&gt;[2] Interrogating the 'Great Ocean Conveyor'&lt;/A&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;A target="_blank" href="http://www.noc.soton.ac.uk/rapid/sis/atlantic_conveyor.php"&gt;[3] The Atlantic heat conveyor&lt;/A&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;A target="_blank" href="http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?cid=9986&amp;pid=12455&amp;tid=282"&gt;[4] Abrupt Climate Change: Should We Be Worried?&lt;/A&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2933223886149514161-3470536645009606629?l=amocint-pt.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/feeds/3470536645009606629/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2933223886149514161&amp;postID=3470536645009606629' title='1 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/3470536645009606629'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/3470536645009606629'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/2008/06/circulao-de-gua-ocenica-no-atlntico.html' title='Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)'/><author><name>HP</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13259156716376584449</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_r6nE6BIXJbA/Stic_OynFDI/AAAAAAAAAQs/ZPA8QstYUGk/S220/lobo_mar.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2933223886149514161.post-771271648174503761</id><published>2008-06-05T10:33:00.007+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T23:44:18.213Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='AMOCINT'/><title type='text'>Logotipo do cruzeiro MD168 - AMOCINT</title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="justify"&gt;A missão oceanográfica AMOCINT já tem logotipo. É da autoria do artista Daniel Catelain. Ficou bem catita, não acham?!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_r6nE6BIXJbA/SEez45orORI/AAAAAAAAABs/XmFU60CWnq8/s1600-h/amocint_logo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_r6nE6BIXJbA/SEez45orORI/AAAAAAAAABs/XmFU60CWnq8/s320/amocint_logo.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5208329284202739986" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2933223886149514161-771271648174503761?l=amocint-pt.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/feeds/771271648174503761/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2933223886149514161&amp;postID=771271648174503761' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/771271648174503761'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/771271648174503761'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/2008/06/logotipo-do-cruzeiro-md168-amocint.html' title='Logotipo do cruzeiro MD168 - AMOCINT'/><author><name>HP</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13259156716376584449</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_r6nE6BIXJbA/Stic_OynFDI/AAAAAAAAAQs/ZPA8QstYUGk/S220/lobo_mar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_r6nE6BIXJbA/SEez45orORI/AAAAAAAAABs/XmFU60CWnq8/s72-c/amocint_logo.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2933223886149514161.post-497128224434226150</id><published>2008-06-04T01:25:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T23:44:18.456Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='AMOCINT'/><title type='text'>Mapa de localização das zonas propostas para pesquisa e recolha de amostras de sedimentos</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_r6nE6BIXJbA/SEcTEporOPI/AAAAAAAAABc/dAIe3UciEDw/s1600-h/AMOCINT.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_r6nE6BIXJbA/SEcTEporOPI/AAAAAAAAABc/dAIe3UciEDw/s320/AMOCINT.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5208152464694130930" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2933223886149514161-497128224434226150?l=amocint-pt.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/feeds/497128224434226150/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2933223886149514161&amp;postID=497128224434226150' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/497128224434226150'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/497128224434226150'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/2008/06/mapa-de-localizao-das-zonas-de-pesquisa.html' title='Mapa de localização das zonas propostas para pesquisa e recolha de amostras de sedimentos'/><author><name>HP</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13259156716376584449</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_r6nE6BIXJbA/Stic_OynFDI/AAAAAAAAAQs/ZPA8QstYUGk/S220/lobo_mar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_r6nE6BIXJbA/SEcTEporOPI/AAAAAAAAABc/dAIe3UciEDw/s72-c/AMOCINT.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2933223886149514161.post-7811038432290885780</id><published>2008-06-03T22:45:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2008-06-09T21:50:18.924+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='IPEV'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='R/V Marion Dufresne'/><title type='text'>Rota e localização do R/V Marion Dufresne</title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="justify"&gt;Podes seguir a rota e ver a localização do navio oceanográfico Marion Dufresne abrindo o seguinte ficheiro &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.institut-polaire.fr/content/download/1697/8471/version/3/file/hrefgoogle.kml"&gt;KML&lt;/a&gt; no Google Earth&lt;sup&gt;TM&lt;/sup&gt;. Se ainda não tens este programa podes obtê-lo gratuitamente &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html"&gt;aqui&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Podes igualmente ver a posição dos navios oceanográficos do IPEV no &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.ipev.fr/pages/posbat/google/"&gt;Google Maps&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2933223886149514161-7811038432290885780?l=amocint-pt.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/feeds/7811038432290885780/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2933223886149514161&amp;postID=7811038432290885780' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/7811038432290885780'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/7811038432290885780'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/2008/06/rota-e-posio-do-navio-oceanogrfico.html' title='Rota e localização do R/V Marion Dufresne'/><author><name>HP</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13259156716376584449</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_r6nE6BIXJbA/Stic_OynFDI/AAAAAAAAAQs/ZPA8QstYUGk/S220/lobo_mar.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2933223886149514161.post-2454249480314057326</id><published>2008-06-02T18:20:00.017+01:00</published><updated>2008-06-05T22:07:50.689+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='IPEV'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='R/V Marion Dufresne'/><title type='text'>O navio oceanográfico Marion Dufresne</title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="justify"&gt;O Marion Dufresne foi construído nos estaleiros navais de Le Havre, em França, e é um navio polivalente. No activo desde 1995 assegura duas funções principais:&lt;br /&gt;(1) a pesquisa oceanográfica, sob a responsabilidade do IPEV (Instituto Polar francês Paul Emile Victor);&lt;br /&gt;(2) a logística (transporte de pessoas e bens) para os territórios ultramarinos franceses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Assim, o Marion Dufresne é simultaneamente:&lt;br /&gt;- um navio  científico ou R/V (Research Vessel), equipado com 650 m&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; de laboratórios e equipamentos pesados dedicados à pesquisa oceanográfica, únicos no mundo.&lt;br /&gt;- um navio com capacidade para 110 passageiros (residentes ou visitantes nos territórios ultramarinos franceses).&lt;br /&gt;- um navio de carga pesada e contentores com uma capacidade de 4600m&lt;sup&gt;3&lt;/sup&gt;,  combinadas com dois guindastes de 25 toneladas, e três outros guindastes de serviço.&lt;br /&gt;- um petroleiro que transporta combustíveis para territórios distantes.&lt;br /&gt;- um porta-helicópteros.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Actividades de investigação e pesquisa científica:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As expedições de investigação levadas a cabo pelo R/V Marion Dufresne abrangem vários aspectos da oceanografia: (1) geociências marinhas (geologia, geofísica, sedimentologia, paleoclimatologia); (2) oceanografia biológica, biogeoquímica); (3) oceanografia física (físico-química, propriedades das massas de água e circulação oceânica).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A sua especificidade, em termos de carotagem de sedimentos e estudos paleoclimatológico é reconhecida a nível internacional. Graças ao seu equipamento de carotagem CALYPSO, é um dos poucos navios capazes de recolher cores de sedimentos marinhos que podem alcançar até cerca de 60 m de comprimento.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;object width="420" height="339"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/x28rut" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/x28rut" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="420" height="339" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/x28rut"&gt;Le Marion Dufresne : navire océanographique&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;by &lt;a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/ipev"&gt;ipev&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Características:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Comprimento total: 120,50 m&lt;br /&gt;Largura: 20,60 m&lt;br /&gt;Profundidade: 12,80 m&lt;br /&gt;Calado: 6,95 m&lt;br /&gt;Capacidade de carga: 2500 t ou 5600 m&lt;sup&gt;3&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Propulsão: diesel-elétrico&lt;br /&gt;Potência de propulsão: 2 x 3000 kW + 1 propulsor dianteiro de 750 kW&lt;br /&gt;Lemes laterais: 2&lt;br /&gt;Velocidade máxima: 16 nós&lt;br /&gt;Passageiros: 110&lt;br /&gt;Tripulação: 10 oficiais + 20 marinheiros + 20 tarefeiros&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2933223886149514161-2454249480314057326?l=amocint-pt.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/feeds/2454249480314057326/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2933223886149514161&amp;postID=2454249480314057326' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/2454249480314057326'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/2454249480314057326'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/2008/06/o-navio-oceanogrfico-marion-dufresne.html' title='O navio oceanográfico Marion Dufresne'/><author><name>HP</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13259156716376584449</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_r6nE6BIXJbA/Stic_OynFDI/AAAAAAAAAQs/ZPA8QstYUGk/S220/lobo_mar.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2933223886149514161.post-3616288309171987297</id><published>2008-06-01T18:20:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2008-06-09T21:47:21.724+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='AMOCINT'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='R/V Marion Dufresne'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='IMAGES'/><title type='text'>Cruzeiro oceanográfico AMOCINT</title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="justify"&gt;A aventura está prestes a começar...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A missão oceanográfica MD168 - AMOCINT (IMAGES XVII) que decorrerá, entre 15 de Junho e 10 de Julho de 2008, a bordo do R/V Marion Dufresne será conduzida, no âmbito do projecto AMOCINT (&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;A&lt;/span&gt;tlantic &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;M&lt;/span&gt;eridional &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;O&lt;/span&gt;verturning &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;C&lt;/span&gt;irculation during &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;INT&lt;/span&gt;erglacials), que faz parte do programa EuroMARC da European Science Foundation. Este projecto é realizado em parceria com o programa IMAGES (International Marine Global Change Study), iniciado em 1995 como um programa científico internacional direccionado para a recolha e interpretação de dados paleoclimáticos dos oceanos. A sua finalidade está relacionada com a compreensão do papel dos processos marinhos no sistema climático terrestre durante os últimos milhões de anos. O cruzeiro oceanográfico MD168 - AMOCINT tem como objectivo o estudo da estrutura espacial e temporal do clima e da hidrografia durante as épocas interglaciares (épocas de clima mais quente como a que atravessamos actualmente), no Atlântico Norte.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation during Interglacials – AMOCINT&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As grandes dúvidas acerca do futuro do clima terrestre estão relacionadas com a sensibilidade do sistema climático a forças externas. Além disso, outros factores como o ciclo do carbono e a sua relação com o clima, bem como a circulação nos oceanos e a instabilidade das calotes polares da Gronelândia e da Antárctida, continuam a levantar muitas questões.&lt;br /&gt;Estudos recentes indicam que a sensibilidade do sistema climático ao aumento do CO2 na atmosfera situa-se entre os 1,5 e os 4,5º C (sendo 3ºC o valor mais provável). O limite superior deste intervalo é mais incerto do que o limite inferior. Uma forma de determinar com maior exactidão este intervalo e, consequentemente determinar a sensibilidade do clima face ao aumento do carbono atmosférico, é através do registo paleoclimático. A pesquisa realizada no projecto AMOCINT envolve a &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;recolha de sedimentos marinhos para o estudo das alterações climáticas&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Principais objectivos do projecto AMOCINT:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Pesquisar locais com uma elevada taxa de sedimentação para para amostragem com o equipamento de carotagem Calypso disponível no R/V Marion Dufresne.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Realizar pesquisas detalhadas de locais chave para monitorizar a variabilidade da Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). Esses locais poderão ser posteriormente explorados no âmbito do programa IODP, tendo em vista a recolha de secções sedimentares espessas depositadas nos períodos interglaciais.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Continuar o estudo das características da circulação de água no Atlântico Norte, durante os períodos interglaciais (ao longo dos últimos 800.000 anos) comparando os novos dados, resultantes da análise dos cores Calypso, com outros já existentes e com dados provenientes dos cores de gelo da Antárctida e Gronelândia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;A target="_blank" href="http://www.cosis.net/abstracts/EGU2008/10851/EGU2008-A-10851.pdf?PHPSESSID="&gt;EuroMARC CRP: Atlantic Meridional Overturning&lt;br /&gt;Circulation During Interglacials (AMOCINT)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2933223886149514161-3616288309171987297?l=amocint-pt.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/feeds/3616288309171987297/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2933223886149514161&amp;postID=3616288309171987297' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/3616288309171987297'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2933223886149514161/posts/default/3616288309171987297'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://amocint-pt.blogspot.com/2008/06/le-marion-dufresne-navire.html' title='Cruzeiro oceanográfico AMOCINT'/><author><name>HP</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13259156716376584449</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_r6nE6BIXJbA/Stic_OynFDI/AAAAAAAAAQs/ZPA8QstYUGk/S220/lobo_mar.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
