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Le Commandant Charcot landed in thick fast ice in the Sj\u00f6gren Inlet while passengers and scientists alike head out on the ice. Photo: MariAnna Hinojosa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

November 8, 2025 <\/strong>After traveling through sea ice overnight, we woke up in the Prince Gustav Channel surrounded by beautiful mountain and glacier views. We traveled between the North Antarctic Peninsula and James Ross Island to stop in Sj\u00f6gren Inlet to land the boat in fast ice. Between 1996 and 2014, the Sj\u00f6gren Glacier retreated 62km (39mi) and continues to do so. Due to the glacier retreat, we were able to land in the inlet and walk up to two of the remaining glacier faces for measurements with our glaciologist colleague, Caroline. It was a very chilly and windy walk with a temperature of -5\u00b0C (23\u00b0F) and 40 knot winds. The wind had blown most of the snow off the surface of the ice, so we used crampons to safely traverse the 1m thick fast ice. It wasn\u2019t until we got back on the vessel that I checked the informational screens in the lobby that informed us that the inlet we had walked over was 368m (~1200ft) deep! Likely due to the high winds, we didn\u2019t see many birds, only a few snow petrels, on our walking survey but we came across one crabeater seal that appeared rather thin and was covered in snow from the wind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A crabeater seal rests on the sea ice and is dusted with snow from the high winds coming down off the glaciers. Photo: MariAnna Hinojosa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Earlier that morning while we were transiting the channel, we hosted a \u201cScientists Corner\u201d with Caroline in the Observatory Lounge. This was intended to be a casual guest interaction and an opportunity for passengers to ask us about our project and what we have done so far. We had 6 guests from Australia, New Zealand, France, and Austria join us and we chatted about everything from our projects to science communication and current events. It was a nice time to meet new passengers we hadn\u2019t interacted with yet. That evening we also joined the passengers and crews on the ice for a group photo in the shape of an \u201cA\u201d for \u201cAntarctica\u201d. While the ship transited back north toward the Antarctic Sound, all three of us scientists concluded the evening with dinner with a fellow American guest who had stopped to chat with us a few times. Our time in the Weddell Sea was officially coming to a close and we were excited to see what we would see and hear in the last couple of days on our expedition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The broken fast ice visible from the port side of the Charcot.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

November 8, 2025 After traveling through sea ice overnight, we woke up in the Prince Gustav Channel surrounded by beautiful mountain and glacier views. We traveled between the North Antarctic Peninsula and James Ross Island to stop in Sj\u00f6gren Inlet to land the boat in fast ice. Between 1996 and 2014, the Sj\u00f6gren Glacier retreated … Continue reading “Nov 8”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14997,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/weddellseamammalsbirds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/weddellseamammalsbirds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/weddellseamammalsbirds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/weddellseamammalsbirds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14997"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/weddellseamammalsbirds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/weddellseamammalsbirds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/weddellseamammalsbirds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/weddellseamammalsbirds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/weddellseamammalsbirds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/weddellseamammalsbirds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}