Research ships are very cool. It's a small environment crammed with smart people, visiting beautiful places to do interesting work. Imagine that several times a day someone brings up a mud core--tens of millions of years old, which no one has ever seen before--and plops it down for you to start analyzing. Although prudish American ships are dry, European ships more sensibly understand the importance of the free-flow of alcohol. So where are all these ships?
Sailwx.info has a handy site allowing you to track the world's research vessels:
http://www.sailwx.info/shiptrack/researchships.phtmlYou can see, for example, that the
Polarstern is right now half way between Iceland and Greenland. The
Thomas Thompson, from which science writer
Wendee Holtcamp is blogging, in
Deadliest Catch waters. It is interesting to think of all this cool research going on simultaneously around the world.
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