Joan Bonilla-Pagan has been at sea for a month, conducting fieldwork in the Nordic Seas. He joined the R/V Neil Armstrong in Iceland, and cruised in the vicinity of the Greenland-Scotland Ridge, and the East Greenland continental shelf, north of Iceland. The science objectives of the expedition were to investigate the sources of dense water feeding the Faroe Bank Channel overflow into the deep North Atlantic Ocean. Joan was a CTD watchstander. He cruised north of the Arctic Circle, saw the primeval Greenland coast, and witnessed the aurora borealis!