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The COMICS expedition is all about understanding how material sinking from the ocean surface contributes to carbon storage in the ocean.  You might think that means we have to actually catch the sinking material to study it. We do that too, but we can also get information about the particles in the water using ocean robots.  Filipa and I have the job of looking after…

Its now a little less than a week since we sailed and we are now sitting in the heart of the South Georgia bloom, one of the largest and most sustained open ocean phytoplankton blooms on the planet, and a major natural sink for atmospheric carbon dioxide.

COMICS is all about understanding how phytoplankton material sinks from the surface, what happens to it as it does and…

Prior to the departure of the RRS Discovery for the first expedition of the COMICS project, we attended a reception at Government House, Stanley given by the governor of the Falkland Islands to celebrate the launch of SAERI - the South Atlantic Environmental Research Institute.

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