Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 03/17/2008 - 14:43

Hey Mr. K!  We read your journal, enjoyed all the details and pictures.  

Questions:  

1.  How strong and which direction are the sea currents?

2.  What's the temperature?  (We know a ton of people keep asking that.)

3.  Love the pictures-  can you take night pictures of the water or anything?

4.  Any cool samplings yet?

5.  The history of the healy name was awesome.  

6.  How are the local people in the town responding to having Healy and your research crew in town?  Speaking Aleut words yet?

Enjoy!  Keep the pictures and journals coming.  No more hard math questions.  We don't know anything about knots and kilometers!

 

Mrs. Manning, Tricia, Jayson, William, Quinn, Aaron, Mason, Ms. Carpenter 

Craig Kasemodel

There are two main currents in the Bering Sea, both moving northward. The Anyadar current that is off the coast of Russia and runs west of St Lawrence Island. The Alaska current runs along the coast of Alaska from Nunivak Island to the Seward Peninsula, east of St Lawrence Island. The temperatures have ranged from 0-20F and the winds can vary in one day to calm to 45knots! It's chilly and breezy!
I will write a journal for you on what it looks like during the night. (Dark! - actually I have some neat pictures that I will post for you...)
Cool samplings - yes the past two days have seen a lot of activity ranging from helicopter flights for aerial surveys and walrus tagging (unfortunately none have been tagged yet); passive acoustic sonobuoys (used to listen for bowhead whales, seals, and walrus); sea floor sediment/benthic organism sampling; snow, ice, light, and water measurements. I have been assisting with the benthic sampling and sorting the past couple of days. In addition, there has been seabird surveys, water surveys, and seafloor sonar ongoing since we left Dutch Harbor.
Knots are equilavent to a nautical mile! (1 knot ~ 1 nm ~ 2025 yards ~ 1852 meters) Those questions are for you! I will quiz you when I get back!
Quayana!