Sophie Fielding

Fisheries Acoustician at British Antarctic Survey. Views are my own

[Sophie Fielding @S_Ocean_sof]

@milo_bischof @daisy_pickup @glupglup2 @TomJasperL @griffiths_huw @morroghmax @lissafriberg Great working with you, thank you for all the hard work

[Amber Annett @amberadium]

All done for Project RaCE:TraX on SD025, lots of seawater and mud to analyse thanks to all the support and enthusiastic help from amazing crew and scientists ❤️
#SDAScience continues, on to moorings and Hesperides Deep!

[Sophie Fielding @S_Ocean_sof]

Fantastic creatures, Antarctic krill. They can live for 5+ years, grow to 5+ cm and have one of the largest biomasses. #SDAScience #RRSSirDavidAttenborough

[Sophie Fielding @S_Ocean_sof]

Mixed emotions. Watching a pod of orcas including calves around the ship. But seeing the fierce side of nature as they hassle a humpback and calf #sdascience

[Sophie Fielding @S_Ocean_sof]

@BAS_News Yo-yo CTD from the #RRSSirDavidAttenborough and a chance to get off the ship to see the ship! #SDAScience

[British Antarctic Survey 🐧 @BAS_News]

Today the #SDAScience expedition is undertaking a 24 hour yo-yo CTD (100 trips to the bottom and back without stopping) to understand changes in the water with the tidal cycle! This gives the crew a chance to get the boats in the water and the scientists a chance to have a jolly!

[Sophie Fielding @S_Ocean_sof]

People or whale watching? #RRSSirDavidAttenborough #SDAScience

[Sophie Fielding @S_Ocean_sof]

Captain Matt Neill of the #RRSSirDavidAttenborough navigating ice to find a suitable location to deploy a float for the Piccolo project (@RoSES_ocean). #SDAScience

[Sophie Fielding @S_Ocean_sof]

A successful multicorer station near Elephant Island for @amberadium makes a happy scientist. #RRSSirDavidAttenborough #SDAScience

[Sophie Fielding @S_Ocean_sof]

@BAS_News @KRHendry @WomeninPolarSci @lissafriberg @angiemilne6 @amberadium @glupglup2 @daisy_pickup @Oceans_Anna @NadeschaZ Fab team of people on board. Just the science women shown here, but huge appreciation to all science and ships crew. Great to have a diverse bunch on board.

[Sophie Fielding @S_Ocean_sof]

Tense moments as the multicorer hits the seabed and we watch the first sediment cores collected from #RRSSirDavidAttenborough from 2300m water depth somewhere near Elephant Island #SDAScience

[British Antarctic Survey 🐧 @BAS_News]

On our slow transit doing science on the way to Antarctica most of the kit we put into the water comes back on deck, but these drifting buoys, or #Argo floats, deployed for the @metoffice, remain in the ocean collecting data on their travels with the currents. @ukargo #SDAScience

[Sophie Fielding @S_Ocean_sof]

The first CTD science station from #RRSSirDavidAttenborough, really excited to see be here #SDAScience

[British Antarctic Survey 🐧 @BAS_News]

The first ever polar waters science on the #RRSSirDavidAttenborough using the ship’s systems!

Important Ocean data and water samples collected by the CTD (Conductivity, Temperature, and Depth). #SDAScience
📷 @milo_bischof @S_Ocean_sof