OASIS - The Zappa Lab

📸: Liv Cornelissen, graduate student at the National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research at University of Auckland @aucklanduni.bsky.social.

The Zappa Lab is tracking High-Salinity Shelf Water formation in Terra Nova Bay, Ross Sea, and its spread into the deep ocean, where it eventually becomes AABW.

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Dept. of Earth and Environmental Science @columbiauniversity.bsky.social graduate student Lindsay Hogan and Postdoc Carson Witte from the Zappa Lab deployed moorings from RVIB Araon as a part of a month-long research cruise in Antarctica to study Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW).

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📸: Liv Cornelissen, graduate student at the National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research at University of Auckland @aucklanduni.bsky.social.

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They studied Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) in the Austral summer of 2024. As part of the expedition, the RV Araon resupplied and relieved personnel at Jang Bogo Station, seen in the distance of this picture from the stern of the RV Araon. Stay tuned for their research in the coming weeks!

🏔❄️Department of Earth and Environmental Science @columbiauniversity.bsky.social graduate student Lindsay Hogan and Postdoc Carson Witte from the Zappa Lab onboarded RV Araon for a month-long research cruise in Terra Nova Bay, Ross Sea, Antarctica.

Our project partners: Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI)
National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research Ltd (NIWA)
Italian Antarctic Program

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AABW forms from cold, dense shelf waters in Antarctica, it is influenced by sea ice, winds, and glacial interactions. Zappa Lab is tracking High-Salinity Shelf Water formation in Terra Nova Bay, Ross Sea, and its spread into the deep ocean, where it eventually becomes AABW.

🌊🚢Clip of @lamontearth.bsky.social mooring deployment from RVIB Araon in 2024 at 16x speed.
In the Austral summer of 2024, the Zappa Lab joined a month-long research cruise in Antarctica to study Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW).
#Oceanography #Antarctic #ClimateScience #OceanScience

The study areas range from laboratory wind-wave tanks, to rivers and estuaries, to shelf seas and polynyas, to the open ocean, from the poles to the equator.

The group develops and deploys instruments including infrared, multispectral, and polarimetric cameras, as well as turbulence sensors, on fixed and mobile platforms such as ships, ocean towers, moorings, drifting buoys, and uncrewed airborne systems (UAS).

OASIS conducts observational research focused on the oceanic and atmospheric boundary layers. This includes ocean waves and wave breaking, air-sea CO2 exchange, near-surface ocean and atmospheric turbulence, and boundary-layer processes affecting heat, mass, and momentum transport.

🌊OASIS The Zappa Lab is excited to join Bluesky🦋

Led by Prof. Christopher J Zappa, the Observatory for Air-Sea Interaction Studies (OASIS) is affiliated with the @lamontearth.bsky.social within the @columbiaclimate.bsky.social, @columbiauniversity.bsky.social.