11th October 2013: Welcome Aboard Over the past several days members of the JC904 science team have been arriving in the city of Santa Cruz on Tenerife, the largest of Spain’s Canary Islands. Santa Cruz was the ship’s last port…

Flickr photostream is now up and running! Click the link below: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tropicscruise/

10th October 2013: RRS James Cook On Thursday and Friday of last week, a group of the scientists who will take part in the expedition travelled down to Southampton to load the ship (see previous blog for details). For myself and several…

Check out our YouTube site for videos documenting our voyage across the Equatorial Atlantic. http://www.youtube.com/user/JC094TROPICS  

30th September 2013 This week, a good chunk of the research scientists going on the TROPICS cruise will be heading somewhere a little less tropical to start loading the ship: Southampton. We’ll have to make sure everything is on board…