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an online dashboard will convey ? ndings and share stories.

GETTING UNDERWAY

Sailing to remote parts of the ocean between June and Oc- “A modern-day warrior is not about war. It’s about the per- tober, Ocean Warrior intends to cover 10,000 nautical miles son—honesty, integrity, empathy, intelligence, courage, te- a year during the next decade. While there’s no typical day nacity and resolve,” shared McNeill. “It’s about one’s purpose and what better purpose is there besides the guardianship of on board, tasks include scienti? c sampling and data logging, instrumentation maintenance, addressing crew necessities like the planet and the survival of humans among all species?” food, and documenting personal experiences through images,

With this mentality and inspired by stories of early explorers videos and written logs. Additionally, the team will deliver taking time off from their adventures to learn from nature, Ice

Warrior was born. Ocean Warrior follows a similar structure, and attend lectures about science on board and engage virtu- ally with school groups. The scientists, citizen warriors and training volunteers in competence and safety on the seas. Mc- crew will be carried by the Linden, Europe’s largest three-

Neill’s goal though is to share the ability to explore, “inspiring masted schooner of its kind, hand-built by shipwrights of people from all walks of life to become the new age of explor- ers, helping scientists discover change, and telling their own the museum community of the Åland Islands in Finland and launched in 1993.

tales to inform and engage others.”

For the ? rst 10-day leg of the expedition, departing Svalbard

GROUNDSWELL on September 1, 2023, the 18-strong team of scientists, citizen

The Warrior programs, while training explorers, are also scientists and crew members were tasked with “building an grounded in science—speci? cally in citizen science. “For over understanding of the vessel and her capabilities” to maximize 60 years, we’ve known that polar regions are key to our sur- the potential for scienti? c data capture. Ocean Warrior aims to install and test a variety of equipment to measure indicators vival,” said McNeill of the work conducted through Ice War- rior. “They provide a cooling effect which allows us to live in like water quality, plankton, eDNA, salinity and ocean acid- ity, including weather stations, FerryBox, CTD, bathymetry, what would otherwise be an uninhabitable environment. We know rapid and unprecedented changes are occurring in the communications and safety. The instrumentation to be used on board by the team will be sorted by February 2024 through a Arctic that affect the rest of the world and yet, scienti? cally, it consortium of ocean scientists, shared McNeill. Additionally, is still poorly understood.”

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