It's been a while since I updated on the latest happenings at sea.
I finally got to observe the deployment and recovery of the Stratus buoys by the Woods Hole group. It was amazing to watch the organization that is involved in such a large project and it was fun to help for us non-oceanographers. This cruise is different from others that I have participated in because there are biologists and oceanographers doing sea water measurements; usually we just sniff the air and see what that tells us. The air is pretty clean in this no man's land (or ocean, as it were) and that means we sample less and for longer periods of time. Some of this free time has gone into helping do UCTD (underway conductivity, temperature and depth) measurements. There was also a team on board to service one of the Dart buoys which is part of the tsunami warning system. Here are some pics.
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