Ms. Nibedita Behera and Mr. Samar Kumar Ghose, PhD Students at the School of Earth, Ocean and Climate Sciences participated in the Earth System Sciences Organization- Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (ESSO-INCOIS) Ocean Observation Networks (OON) cruise to Bay of Bengal during 16th December 2016 to 3rd January, 2017 onboard Ocean Research Vessel Sagar Nidhi. It was a multi-institutional cruise program with participants from various national institutions such as INCOIS, NIO, IISc, IIT Madras, IIT Bhubaneswar, and University of Hyderabad. The Cruise was conducted to collect valuable ocean data in the Bay of Bengal during the winter monsoon which is expected to provide new insights into the winter-time oceanic processes in this Bay.