Pip the Palaeo Penguin

Proud penguin on a quest to reconstruct past climates. Currently the Principal Penguin sailing onboard RRS Discovery to investigate the Paleogene! #DY087

[Pip the Palaeo Penguin @pip_penguin]

I'm looking for palaeo pen pals to keep me company while I'm on the cruise. If any schools or youth groups are interested in talking to scientists about life at sea and what palaeoceanographers do get in touch!

[ExploringOurOcean @UoSoceans]

It's #WorldOceansDay so why not explore them with our scientists in a global classroom? Register here... https://t.co/RAWbvcgH8i

[The Royal Society @royalsociety]

Happy #WorldPenguinDay! Spot your favourite with this brilliant #citizenscience project https://t.co/XQWeKxMHxy (Pic: @PepomintNarwhal)

[Vicki Taylor @GeoVicki]

Thanks to all the primary school students who sent me and @pip_penguin postcards and pictures. Replies to all your questions about how to become a scientist, life as a palaeoceanographer and our RRS Discovery cruise #DY087 are now in the post!

[Rob Larter @rdlarter]

1 week on from end of @UoS_OES @BAS_News cruise #DY087 and taking stock of data collected. The #seismic data in numbers:
3272 line-km;
133,587 data record files, each containing
252 traces, 9.5 s long, 1 ms sampled.
Total raw data volume ~1.3TB (that's >1,300,000,000,000 bytes)

[Rob Larter @rdlarter]

A few #Statistics from @UoS_OES @BAS_News cruise #DY087 on @NOCnews RRS Discovery

[Rob Larter @rdlarter]

Most #geophysicists know about linear #magnetic anomalies produced by sea-floor spreading but may not have seen examples of how they work in practice. Here's a nice one from #DY087 in West Georgia Basin . Black wiggly line is predicted by theory, orange line is what we observed

[Rob Larter @rdlarter]

With #DY087 science program complete and @NOCnews RRS Discovery in transit back to Punta Arenas, Chile, Chief #Engineer Andy kindly took the scientists on a tour of the impressive #machinery spaces, where he and his colleagues have been working to keep everything running smoothly

[Rob Larter @rdlarter]

The science program finished today on @UoS_OES @BAS_News cruise #DY087, on my birthday. Unbelievably, this is what the part of the #SouthernOcean we were working in looked like a couple of days ago. It's different now as we head for Punta Arenas, Chile, via the #Falkland Islands

[Rob Larter @rdlarter]

Last #sediment core collected on @UoS_OES @BAS_News cruise #DY087 and it's a good one. Marine #geology that's obvious even to a geophysicist like me. Methinks there's a lithology change somewhere in that middle section.

[Pip the Palaeo Penguin @pip_penguin]

#scienceisforeveryone

[Pip the Palaeo Penguin @pip_penguin]

....And here I am - doing my PhD in what I love and getting the opportunity to travel the world and use my expertise in science."

[Pip the Palaeo Penguin @pip_penguin]

...I was told I couldn't do triple science at GCSE - I wouldn't get the grades. I was told to drop Biology A Level becauseI needed to resit twice. Being told I couldn't only drove me to work harder and prove everyone wrong.....

[Pip the Palaeo Penguin @pip_penguin]

@amyandhernannos "I inspired myself to become a scientist. From a young age I always loved being outside, identifying different animals and playing in the garden when I lived in Australia. I was always told I wasn't clever enough during school because of my dyslexia....

[Pip the Palaeo Penguin @pip_penguin]

@GeoVicki "I never grew out of the 'always-asking-why-toddler-phase' and so, as cheesy as it may sound, nature has always been my inspiration. Everyday science allows me to work with inspiring people, see amazing things and work towards finding the answers to my own questions!"

[Pip the Palaeo Penguin @pip_penguin]

What are the first things to happen to a sediment core once it is retrieved? From splitting to logging to sampling, read all about the first things happening to the new cores aboard RRS Discovery here: https://t.co/FuMAXUUgCU #DY087

[Pip the Palaeo Penguin @pip_penguin]

The What, How and Why of Seismic Surveys aboard RRS Discovery! #DY087 https://t.co/skDAauxBV3

[Pip the Palaeo Penguin @pip_penguin]

@AmyMJewell "I remember once going to a 'GCSE Science live' show, and there was an amazing woman (Maggie Aderin-Pocock) who did this incredible talk about space, and did the whole thing with her tiny baby asleep on her chest- what an inspiration! I wanted to be like her"

[Pip the Palaeo Penguin @pip_penguin]

@gwenowenj "I guess I've always liked science, geology looked cool and interdisciplinary and also it had the chance for world travel plus being outdoors a lot"

[Rob Larter @rdlarter]

For the first time in ages we had clear skies at sunset on RRS Discovery #DY087 in the South Atlantic, and it coincided with the partial #Eclipse2018

[Rob Larter @rdlarter]

Seismic data we are collecting on #DY087 will be used to study the ocean as well as the sub-seabed, but getting oceanographic control data while towing a 3 km streamer is tricky. Here @UniofExeter Tobi demonstrates our improvised solution for deploying probes