Ocean Warrior project to record changes in the Arctic’s marine environment

The brainchild of explorer Jim McNeill, who has been running scientific expeditions to the Arctic for over two decades, the Ocean Warrior project will set sail from Svalbard, Norway, onboard S/V Linden at the start of September.

Designed to collect scientific measurements from remote areas of the Arctic Ocean, the Ocean Warrior project will also help to ‘ground-truth’ data collected via satellites. 

For the first ten-day leg of the expedition, the team of 18, including crew members, scientists and citizen scientists will build an understanding of the vessel and her capabilities so that the potential for scientific data capture can be maximised. The expedition aims to install and test equipment such as weather stations, FerryBox sensors, CTD sensors, and Bathymetry instrumentation. An online dashboard will be created to convey the findings and capture stories through digital and broadcast content capture.

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The project is being supported by Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML), Valeport, which designs and manufactures oceanographic and hydrographic instrumentation, Mole Energy, Dartmoor Brewery and Henri Lloyd.