We managed to squeak out one last deployment on a crabeater seal on the way back to Palmer Station. That means all of our CTD tags are deployed! In other words, we're all tagged out!

We rolled the dice a little bit today and it paid off.

Well, we got a little taste of Antarctic weather in late May yesterday.

Today we were successful in deploying our first tag, above. And, below, that's the seal heading into the water after it's tagged.

We left Palmer Station (above) yesterday evening and arrived at Crystal Sound this morning where the previous seal team tagged its first seal.

The bad weather has hampered the fishing crew on the Gould and cost us the extra half day of seal-catching that they were trying to give us.

The seal crew arrived yesterday at Palmer Station and met up with Gitte McDonald. We spent the day reviewing procedures, working on equipment and getting oriented to the station.

Aboard the RV L.M. Gould in the (dreaded) Drake Passage. We are in the midst of a crew switch for the remainder of the crabeater seal tag deployments.

We moved about the L.M. Gould last night as we made final preparations to sail.

Yesterday we saw the return of the L.M. Gould as she returned from the ice-fishing expedition to obtain samples for research here at Palmer Station.