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Speed 9.5 knots (kts) Course 73.8 ° Location 71.16° N, 144.05° W Depth 2116 meters ## SPECIAL FEATURE DISCUSSION: (see previous journal for the questions.) **A ship's heading is the direction it is pointed in, while its course is the direction it is traveling in over the sea floor

Today, our team divided and conquered.Anna and Kelsey headed off to repair some of the chewed and water-logged data loggers discovered yesterday, before retrieving information from another Flux plot. Dima, Cathy, Elliot, and I headed across the oil field to West Dock, a CALM site identical in layout

Twelve hours in the field, 35 degrees, windy, site teardown, spectrometry, and the NIMS grid! It all made for an interesting day in Atqasuk...I'll write more tomorrow but right now we're trying to figure out the NIMS grid before Rob and I get on the plane back to Barrow tomorrow morning.

We are leaving Isfjord Radio tomorrow so no one went into the field today. We spent the day packing the equipment and getting the bags ready for the trip back to Longyearbyen tomorrow by boat. In the afternoon, we went on a field trip along the coast heading south from Isfjord radio. Lots of birds

Speed 9.6 knots (kts) Course 107.4° Location 71.39° N, 144.73° W Southern Beaufort Sea approx. 84nm north of Camden Bay Depth 2961 meters ## SPECIAL FEATURE DISCUSSION: (see previous journal for the questions.) Chlorophyl levels (indicated by the yellow line on the CTD graph) are

This morning began with a bit of gear retrieval… While many of the sites we will visit have been monitored for 15 years, a relative newcomer to the team’s data collection is the Differential Global Positioning System (DGPS). This equipment will identify the latitude and longitude and the elevation