To understand the multi-core I need to step back a bit. Let's say we understand a food web, you know one species eating another all intricately linked through their dependence upon each other. Well…
Before I begin today's journal I need to stop for a moment and reflect upon the sea. It is in a word, glorious! I could sit for hours, ahhh the luxury, and just watch the waves. Reminds me of our…
Before I begin today's adventure, I would like to thank the parents of MST3 Tom Kruger. Without your support Tom would not have told me at three o'clock this morning that we were working with "…
I have been aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Research Vessel Healy for five days, so it is time for me to share my expertise on what life is like at sea. Now isn't that a hoot!
Every day starts with a…
Yesterday you were introduced to the MOCNESS, today we will go into a bit more "depth"as to what the scientists are sampling, and why they are sampling. We all know about food chains and food webs,…
Today will be my first day as part of the MOCNESS team, so I though you should meet these amazing scientists.
From left to right: Alexei, Nicola, Elizabeth, and Ron, ready to deploy the MOCNESS.…
We are underway, a tug helped our vessel move away from the dock and we are now heading towards station number one.
Local tug used to get the Healy from the dock.
Before we get to our first…
I am not sure if today is the first day, or yesterday, or was it last March when I had my PolarTREC training, but either way a new component of my Bering Sea Research started today. I have met the…
Our plane from Anchorage arrived at 12:30 in the afternoon and it has been a whirlwind ever since. Robert, one of the scientists, and John, the Armada teacher were on my flight so we rented a car…
Tomorrow I begin my travels towards Dutch Harbor, on the Island of Unalaska, in the Aleutian Islands. Today I should be packing. Instead I went for a little hike, four miles up to the saddle of the…
Here it is the long awaited part two to my pre- trip knowledge quest. As you all know, the Bering Sea, one of the world's richest marine ecosystems, will be my laboratory for the next month. As an…
To prepare for my trip to the Bering Sea, I though it would be great to learn a bit more about where I am going! There are actually two parts to my knowledge quest: The island of Unalaska, in the…
