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Audio journal from May 15th, 2008. Click icon below to listen.

The Otter trawl did successful bring up a variety of marine life, including a lot of fish, shrimp, and starfish, but very little coral. A CTD was planned for immediately after the Otter trawl, but it was having some electronic problems, so it was postponed until those were fixed. The two Electronics

The Towcam has had 2 successful journeys to the seafloor today. The first Towcam was early in the morning in about 400 meters of water. It is lowered about 5 meters from the seafloor and then slowly towed forward by the ship. The camera then takes 1 photo every 10 seconds, which produces about 1,000

The basket dredge that was completed early this morning, about 1:00 a.m., only brought up pebbles that were identified as drop stones. The corals group was still searching for a good way to collect the corals that they knew were on the seafloor. Next, they again tried the Towcam, but unfortunately a

I arrived for my watch shift to find a Blake trawl in the process of being dragged along the bottom of the seafloor. I was told that just minutes before the wire tension had spiked to over 18,000 and everyone feared that another trawl had broken off the wire. Finally, all the wire was pulled back on

Today was basically a transit day to Elephant Island. On our way to Elephant Island, we did finally travel beyond the latitude of 60 degrees south, which means we are now in Antarctic waters! We should be arriving at Elephant Island at about 9:00 in the morning, and the corals group plans on getting

Look, we spend our day decorating Styrofoam cups! Well, not really the whole day, maybe just 30 minutes after all the important research was done. It was fun to zone out and color for a while. We will put all the cups on the CTD, which goes to the seafloor and takes in water samples at different

Last week, Mr. Harger's 5th grade students took a break from learning about health and human development and joined Mrs. Ward on an adventure from her classroom at DA (room 401) to the Beaufort Sea north of Alaska just below the Arctic Circle. First we studied a map of the northern polar region to

**Location: **Seattle, WA Hello. I'm Mike Etnier, and I'll be writing most of the postings this summer for the Kuril Biocomplexity Project (KBP). I wear a lot of different hats, but two of them from that list are a zooarchaeologist and one of the senior researchers on the project. My job description