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No More MoorSPICE

Author: Nick Mathews
Host Vessel: R/V Thomas G. Thompson

                Well if you read my last blog entry http://www.marinetech.org/internship-blog/bid/1100 then you know that the MoorSPICE cruise started off without a hitch!  However, as I am learning about life at sea, nothing goes exactly as planned and everyone needs to be prepared for anything. 

                Some of the troubles we encountered since the last post were minor like the less-than-salty scientists getting seasick and disappearing into their rooms for days.  Another problem was that some scientists couldn’t get sleep because their beds are near the bow thruster which was pounding away all day and all night on this cruise, but these were minor personal problems.

                We did encounter a few technical problems which spanned from leaky bottles to haunted water sample processing equipment.  First, there were several Niskin bottles that boggled the techs.  When we send down the CTD, we send it down on a strong metal cable that has a few metal wires in it that transfer data up to the ship and commands down to the instrument.  The commands are to close the caps to the bottles which captures a water sample at a certain depth.  Now in order for this to work properly it needs to be sealed water tight.  In a growing number of cases on this trip, there were bottles that were coming up warm; water from the deep ocean should be very cold so this was indicative of a leak.  Oh, and another clue was the fact that it was visually leaking.  We discovered that the culprit was a crack in the bottles and we had to replace a few of them.  Problem solved, but not all problems were this easy to solve.

                A bigger problem occurred during a day that we set aside to download data from a mooring, remotely.  One of the engineers from Scripps, Spencer, was tasked with using a sonar transducer to ‘talk’ with a mooring that was anchored to the seafloor right under the ship.  He then used the transducer to command it to send us data via sound waves so our sonar receiver could download it.  However the data never came.  We tried using his personal sonar transducer and then the ship’s transducer, but neither of them worked.  Luckily we were able to download data from a second mooring in the area.  We called it a success and cruised to the next station.

                The biggest problem for this cruise was the salinometer.  Not only was it the biggest problem, but the challenge to solve the problem was put squarely on my shoulders.  Now if you know anything about salinometers, which you don’t, you know that they’re incredibly touchy, they work only every other lunar eclipse, and they’re susceptible to all sorts of voodoo, but when you finally understand their ways, they give you the most accurate data you could ever need.  Some people know them very well, but nobody on this cruise was one of them.  So I got out the manual and hacked away at the beast until I figured out how to calibrate the thing to standardized sea water (sea water from off the coast of England that costs ~$120/liter) and how to properly clean the thing between each testing sample.  The problem was that the data that it was producing was just wrong; it was way too high to be real.  So I reread the manual over and over and for a couple of days I am completely stuck.  Then I realized that there was a dial to manually adjust the voltage associated with the specific salinity in the standardized seawater, I guess because I’m a millennial I had assumed it was automatic. Then after helping the scientists with their calculations, we finally got some numbers that made sense!  Not the quickest fix, but a fix nonetheless.

                Another big problem at sea is monotony.  The work is exciting and intensity is high, but the routine is, well, very routine.  After doing moorings and CTD’s for a couple of months straight I kind of needed something to break up the routine a little bit. 

                The first thing I do is talk with the scientists and the other techs and bug them to tell me everything they know.  I would go to Mar, the biologist from Spain, and try to get into the mind of a scientist.  It is important to remember that the ship’s crew and the scientists come from very different backgrounds and are on the ship for very different reasons.  The marine tech is responsible for keeping everybody on the same page and making sure everybody gets what they want out of the cruise, safely.

                Another scientist I talked to was Marion from Scripps, who taught me everything there is to know about the Lower Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler and the software that she uses to read and process the data.  It’s also important to know how the scientists use the data that we’re going to such great extents to collect.  If they’re not happy with the data, they’re not happy with the cruise.  Data is the driving force behind all science.

                Helping me understand the data and much much more about the ship’s computers was Patrick A’Hearn, the lead marine tech on this cruise.  He took me to the racks of computers in the computer lab and described to me in great detail over the course of weeks, what each machine does.  I took it upon myself to draw it out in a formal network diagram, but the network is so complicated that it would leave the reader more confused.  He and Tina taught me a lot about what types of data goes between what types of computers and it is a lot to process, but in this age of automation, so so important.

                Aside from filling my head with information, I also like to fill my belly.  On March 14th, the third mate, Marion, and another scientist, Sri, all stayed up through the night to bake all sorts of pies for Pi Day!  I’m admittedly not that great of a cook, especially on little sleep, but we made enough pies to last for days.  Luckily that night the cooks set up a barbeque on the bow.  It was really neat to enjoy our creations with the beautiful Gizo Island almost a stone’s throw away.  Since all of these islands are scarcely inhabited, it was incredibly unique that we saw two people rowing a canoe out in the shallow reefs around us.  Then to top it off, we had a beautiful sunset.  What a Pi Day.

                More from the battlefront against monotony: The 2014 MoorSPICE Ping Pong Extravaganza!  We had a lot of time to kill during a few 30 hour transits, so the chief scientist enlisted me to set up a tournament to keep everyone busy and our spirits high.  With the help of an exceptional AB, Pam, we set up a ‘random selector’ machine to pick opponents for the first round of the tournament.  This was a lesson in mechanical engineering as we built an actual lottery machine with floating ping pong balls with numbers on them.  It was quite the thrill and I have gotten really good at ping pong over the past few months, so I kicked butt.

                Another recreational activity we did to pass time was fishing, and as a group we caught one fish.  It was about two feet long, and it was something called a blue runner.  We saw a whole bunch of fish and even a shark way out in the ocean, but we only got one.  I lie, we also had a flying fish fly on deck and dry out on us, although that wasn’t nearly as appetizing.

                 The biggest recreational project we had was the CTD videography.  We wanted to show people at home what we do on a daily basis, and we also wanted to see what it looks like when the CTD descends down into the deep dark blue depths of the Ocean.  So before we got the CTD in the water, we taped a GoPro to the end of a 20’ pole and held it in the water over the side of the ship.  After we recorded the CTD deploying, we brought the GoPro inside and made a timelapse video of the usually four to six hours of watching numbers on a screen to make sure everything is working.  This turned out great and I hope to post it somewhere and put the link here.

                All and all, the MoorSPICE cruise was pretty awesome.  I had a lot of fun and learned a lot of French from some of the foreign scientists.  If you’d like to know more about the science, they made their own blog here http://moorspice2014.wordpress.com/ .

                As for me, after a short stay in the New Caledonian port which included a long hot day of unloading all of their mooring stuff followed shortly by a well-deserved pool party, I was nearing the end of my hitch on the Thompson.  I cannot even imagine being on another ship, but after a short transit to Auckland, New Zealand, I’m getting right on a plane and heading to Hawaii to get on the Kilo Moana!

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Week 1-Into the Bermuda Triangle! - 07/08/2018
Week Eleven: Spruce and Sea Spray - 07/02/2018

June 2018

Pre-Internship Blog Post - 06/29/2018
There and Back Again - 06/25/2018
Week Ten: The Quick Turnaround - 06/24/2018
R/V Atlantic Explorer Week 2 - 06/22/2018
Stateside - 06/21/2018
Week Nine: Science and Salvage - 06/17/2018
All Hands On Deck - 06/14/2018
The HABCAM Returns - 06/12/2018
Week Eight: Night Fishing - 06/11/2018
Smooth Seas and Proper Preparation - 06/04/2018
Week Seven: Dirt Don't Hurt - 06/03/2018

May 2018

Higher Latitudes, Lower Temperatures - 05/30/2018
Ready to Depart! - 05/29/2018
Week Six: At the Dock - 05/28/2018
Wait it's only been a week? - 05/22/2018
Week Five: Hit Ground and Run - 05/20/2018
Week Four: Countdown to Reykjavik - 05/14/2018
Ready to Depart - 05/13/2018
Week Three: Transit to Iceland - 05/06/2018

April 2018

Week Two: A Return to the Day Shift - 04/29/2018
Week One: Rough Seas - 04/22/2018
Arrival - 04/14/2018

November 2017

USCGC Healy - Final Week - 11/19/2017
USCGC Healy - Slide into Seward - 11/12/2017
USCGC Healy - Happy Healy-ween! - 11/05/2017

October 2017

USCGC Healy - Science and Seinfeld - 10/29/2017
USCGC Healy - Getting Started - 10/22/2017
Saying Goodbye - 10/13/2017
I'm going to name my dog, Niskin! - 10/10/2017
USCGC Healy - Internship Starting Next Week! - 10/08/2017
Don't tell the bears, I'm stuck! - 10/02/2017
Leaving for Puerto Rico- Did I mention Hurricane Maria JUST passed? - 10/01/2017

September 2017

Nature's Discotech - 09/25/2017
Cruisin' to the Big City - 09/24/2017
Everyone's grows up sometimes: Holding my own shift - 09/17/2017
Preparing to go meet USCGC Healy - 09/16/2017
Week 3 Aboard the USCGC Healy - 09/12/2017
Storms, Cruise Prep and my First Milli-Q Installation - 09/10/2017
Week 2 Aboard the USCGC Healy - 09/05/2017
Week 5.286 Aboard the Armstrong - 09/04/2017
I've been suspended from a crane! - 09/03/2017
Week 4: Adieu Atlantis - 09/02/2017
Week 5 Aboard the Armstrong - 09/01/2017

August 2017

Week 1 Aboard the USCGC Healy - 08/29/2017
Surprise Mooring Cruise - 08/27/2017
Pictures Galore! - 08/25/2017
Week 4 Aboard the Armstrong - 08/25/2017
BATS: Round Two! - 08/20/2017
Week 3 Aboard the Armstrong - 08/18/2017
Pre-Internship USCGC Healy - 08/17/2017
A Welcome Return from Canada - 08/13/2017
Week 3 Aboard the Walton Smith: Everglades, waterways, and CTDs - 08/12/2017
Week 2 Aboard the Armstrong - 08/11/2017
From Bermuda to Halifax, Canada - 08/06/2017
Week 1 Aboard the Armstrong - 08/04/2017

July 2017

Week 2 Aboard the Walton Smith: Tucker Trawls, Shrimp, and Bioluminescence - 07/30/2017
On shore in Bermuda - 07/28/2017
Week 1 Aboard the Walton Smith: Knots, Navigation, and CTDs - 07/23/2017
A Welcoming Arrival and First Cruise in Bermuda - 07/21/2017
Before I Set Sail - 07/18/2017
Week 4 on the F. G. Walton Smith - 07/17/2017
Before the internship aboard the F.G Walton Smith - 07/16/2017
Home and an Awaiting Adventure in Bermuda - 07/14/2017
Week 3 on the F. G. Walton Smith - 07/09/2017
Week 2 on the F. G. Walton Smith - 07/03/2017

June 2017

Reflections and my Final Trip on the Pelican - 06/30/2017
Week 1 on the F. G. Walton Smith - 06/25/2017
Final Two Weeks: Hurricane Season - 06/22/2017
Week Five: We're on the move - 06/20/2017
Week Five on the R/V Sharp - 06/17/2017
A New Vessel in Mississippi - 06/15/2017
Week 4 -the beginning of the engineering cruse- - 06/14/2017
Florida on the R/V F. G. Walton Smith - 06/11/2017
Week Four on the R/V Sharp - 06/09/2017
Pictures from Scallop Leg 2 - 06/06/2017
Week three is a Little late - 06/06/2017
Beautiful Deep Sea Discoveries- Photos Galor, A MUST Read! - 06/06/2017
Week Three on R/V Sharp - 06/02/2017

May 2017

Deep Water Horizon, Shipwrecks and ROVS - 05/29/2017
Its week two on board the Atlantis - 05/28/2017
Week 2 on R/V Sharp - 05/27/2017
Pictures from Scallop Leg 1 - 05/25/2017
First week with the R/V Atlantis - 05/23/2017
Big Wigs and Boat Celebrations in Baton Rouge - 05/22/2017
Week 1 on R/V Sharp - 05/19/2017
Preparation for Internship aboard R/V Atlantis - 05/15/2017
Docks and Landers in the Gulf - 05/15/2017
Getting Ready for my Internship on R/V Hugh R. Sharp - 05/10/2017
First Month Down - 05/08/2017
Mexico, Storms and Drones - 05/01/2017

April 2017

Week Two: The Sound of Pelicans and the Smell of New Orleans! - 04/22/2017
Week 1: The Gulf of Mexico and Dolphins! - 04/13/2017
Almost on my Way! - 04/01/2017

October 2016

Conclusions on the R/V Sikuliaq - 10/12/2016

September 2016

Sheets and Ice Sheets: Taking the Plunge - 09/16/2016
Blog 6: Day 28 - The End in Sight - 09/11/2016
WEEK 9- Breakdown, Bottles and Bees - 09/10/2016
Blog 5: Day 26 - Pictures! - 09/09/2016
CTDs, Sea Ice and Polar Bears - 09/08/2016
Blog 4: Day 22 - White September - 09/05/2016
WEEK 8- Cable Termination, Nearing the End - 09/03/2016

August 2016

Transiting on the R/V Sikuliaq! - 08/30/2016
Blog 3: Day 14 - Waiting out the ice - 08/28/2016
WEEK 7- An Unexpected Visit Home - 08/27/2016
Blog 2: Day 7 - I think I see Russia - 08/21/2016
WEEK 6- Alongside - 08/20/2016
Blog 1: Day 0 - Pre-internship post - 08/14/2016
Better late than never - 08/14/2016
WEEK 5- Canceled Cruises, Funeral For Our Fallen Brother - 08/13/2016
Return and Reflect - 08/10/2016
Week 4- Downtime and Tragedy - 08/08/2016
Week 3- South Florida Ecosystem Restoration Cruise - 08/03/2016
Moorings and Transit - 08/03/2016

July 2016

Creatures of the Pockmarks - 07/26/2016
Pre-Internship on the R/V Sikuliaq! - 07/25/2016
Week 2-Bioluminescent Sea Creatures - 07/24/2016
Station to Station - 07/20/2016
Week 1 - 07/17/2016
Another successful cruise - 07/17/2016
Backing and Ramming - 07/11/2016
Pre-Internship Blog - 07/07/2016
R/V Sikuliaq Cruise Report - 07/07/2016
Holiday at Sea- Week 1 - 07/04/2016
Quiet times - 07/02/2016
Blog 3, Final - 07/01/2016

June 2016

Introduction and Anticipation - 06/27/2016
Pre-Internship Blog Test - 06/26/2016
USCG Healy Internship - Post 2 - 06/24/2016
Week 5 Aboard the R/V Sharp - 06/20/2016
Pre-internship blog - 06/19/2016
BATS Cruise - 06/16/2016
Week 4 Aboard the R/V sharp - 06/14/2016
Back at it - 06/14/2016
Pre-Internship - Post 1 - 06/13/2016
Week 3 Aboard the R/V Sharp - 06/09/2016
Hydrostation Time! - 06/09/2016
The End or the Beginning? - 06/09/2016
A Quick Update - 06/04/2016
Week Three - Back at the Dock - 06/02/2016
Week 2 Aboard the R/V Sharp - 06/02/2016
A Slight Change of Plans - 06/01/2016

May 2016

Week 01 - 05/28/2016
Week Two- Change of Plans - 05/26/2016
Week 1 - 05/22/2016
Pre-Internship - 05/22/2016
Land! - 05/20/2016
Week One in the Bermuda Triangle - 05/19/2016
Moving into sediment - 05/14/2016
Pre-Internship - 05/10/2016
Pre-Intern - 05/10/2016
Mapping Complete - 05/06/2016
Seafloor mapping out in the Pacific - 05/03/2016

April 2016

Transit - 04/17/2016
Back at sea - 04/09/2016
Picture test - 04/09/2016
Stuck - 04/07/2016

March 2016

Busy busy busy - 03/26/2016
Week 1 - 03/13/2016
Pre-internship - 03/02/2016

September 2015

The last few days on R/V Langseth - 09/12/2015
Looking for freshwater - 09/06/2015
Week One: The Langseth is hard at work - 09/06/2015

August 2015

Week 4- The journey back - 08/28/2015
Getting ready for the Langseth! - 08/25/2015
Week 3- Home stretch - 08/21/2015
The End - 08/19/2015
Week 2- Equipment - 08/15/2015
Multibeam/Coring Cruise - 08/13/2015
Week One- Getting acquainted - 08/07/2015

July 2015

Let The Science Begin - 07/31/2015
I didn't blow up the ship! - 07/30/2015
My third and longest trip - 07/27/2015
New England Mud Patch - 07/23/2015
First 12 days on the Point Sur - 07/17/2015
Week 2 - From Port to the Deep Blue - 07/15/2015
Back to Corvallis - 07/14/2015
Searching for Deep Sea Prey - 07/09/2015
RV Langseth: Last blog post - 07/08/2015
Dreams do come true - 07/05/2015
First day aboard the RV Falkor - 07/05/2015
RV Langseth: Wrapping up Coverage - 07/03/2015
First Week at Sea - 07/02/2015

June 2015

End of a Chapter - 06/25/2015
RV Langseth: Fishing gear - 06/24/2015
R/V Pelican- The End - 06/21/2015
After the Healy - 06/20/2015
Days of Dredging - 06/18/2015
RV Langseth: Mowin' the grass - 06/17/2015
R/V Pelican: Waiting on the Weather - 06/13/2015
Dredging, Whales, and the Last Leg - 06/11/2015
RV Langseth: Data Rolling in - 06/10/2015
RV Langseth: First week out at sea - 06/04/2015
Fun with Dredging - 06/04/2015
R/V Pelican- Almost there! - 06/04/2015
Quick update - 06/01/2015

May 2015

Transitions - 05/28/2015
RV Langseth: First few days on the boat - 05/27/2015
Pre-Internship Hello - 05/22/2015
Week #1: Settling In - 05/21/2015
From parts to product - 05/20/2015
RV Langseth: Getting ready to go - 05/19/2015
Adios San Diego, Hola Portland! What we do while in transit … - 05/15/2015
Pre-Internship Excitement - 05/13/2015
Reflections - 05/08/2015
Best laid plans … - 05/01/2015

April 2015

Understanding Wire and Rope (Part 1) - Wire - 04/28/2015
Oregon Coast Marine Life - 04/20/2015
Maintenance, Sampling and Catching (because anyone can fish) - 04/17/2015
Haze Gray (white) and Underway - 04/07/2015
Ocean Observatories Initiative Cruise - 04/03/2015

March 2015

3..2..1..Start - 03/24/2015
La felia padrig (Happy St. Patty's Day) - 03/17/2015

October 2014

The End…for now - 10/13/2014

September 2014

Cape Crusaders - 09/30/2014
Our love/hate relationship with electronics - 09/25/2014
Looking Westward - 09/23/2014
Our favorite patch of ocean - 09/16/2014
Last Day - 09/12/2014
On my own - 09/11/2014
In all her glory - 09/09/2014
Irminger to Iceland - 09/02/2014
Let's do this! - 09/02/2014

August 2014

Apocalypse Now - 08/27/2014
A picture is worth a thousand words - 08/27/2014
The R/V Oceanus marine tech team - 08/26/2014
Week Six- The End - 08/26/2014
Steaming west in the Labrador Sea - 08/25/2014
Hole in the hull - 08/21/2014
Week Five - 08/20/2014
R/V Knorr is in the Labrador Sea - 08/18/2014
Week Four - 08/15/2014
Castles in the sand - 08/15/2014
Last OBS cruise - 08/13/2014
2 down and another to go... - 08/11/2014
Working on the Irminger Sea - 08/10/2014
Reflections after the internship - 08/08/2014
Week Three- Not so many Thunderstorms - 08/06/2014
On the R/V Knorr - 08/05/2014
CTDs - 08/04/2014
Deploying OBSs - 08/03/2014

July 2014

Sea sickness under control - 07/31/2014
Week Two- Good Bye Scallops, Hello Thunderstorms - 07/30/2014
The Final Post - 07/29/2014
Arrived to Dutch Harbor - 07/28/2014
Hi Seas Net: a frustrating mystery - 07/26/2014
5 days until Iceland - 07/26/2014
Observations and Ideas - 07/24/2014
Filtering Phytoplankton! - 07/23/2014
Internship begins - 07/22/2014
Week One-Scalloping - 07/21/2014
Adjusting - 07/18/2014
RVHRS Scallop Survey - Last Leg - 07/17/2014
On to the Healy and a Rescue in the Ice! - 07/15/2014
RVHRS Scallop Survey - Second Leg - 07/14/2014
First week onboard R/V Oceanus - 07/13/2014
Just finished preparing, ready to begin - 07/07/2014
Ready to Go - 07/07/2014
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end - 07/03/2014

June 2014

Third week on the Sharp - 06/30/2014
RVHRS Scallop Survey - First Leg - 06/30/2014
Preparation for the Journey through Ice and Snow - 06/29/2014
IT WORKS!! - 06/27/2014
Second week on the Sharp - 06/16/2014
Preparations - 06/11/2014
Ocean Bottom Electromagnetic Receivers - 06/10/2014
First week aboard Sharp - 06/07/2014
Applying, packing, and travel - 06/06/2014

May 2014

Departing for My Internship! - 05/29/2014
On Board the R/V Oceanus - 05/05/2014

April 2014

Manganese Mania - 04/30/2014
End of my Thompson Hitch - 04/16/2014
No More MoorSPICE - 04/02/2014

March 2014

Solomon Seas with MoorSPICE - 03/19/2014
Transit to New Caledonia - 03/05/2014

February 2014

End of the Wave Chasers Cruise - 02/19/2014
Tow-Yo Troubles on the Thompson - 02/06/2014

January 2014

Gray Skies and Blue Marlin - 01/28/2014
Let the Wave Chasing Commence! - 01/19/2014
Gearing up for 40 days with the WaveChasers - 01/13/2014
Samoa-Bound - 01/01/2014

November 2013

Special Thanks - 11/11/2013
Some Science - 11/04/2013
1PPS and Dry Wells - 11/03/2013

October 2013

E/V Nautilus - 10/31/2013
The Simple Things - 10/24/2013
Pictorial of the most epic rebuild - 10/14/2013
Team CTD - 10/13/2013
Back in the saddle again - 10/06/2013
Just the Beginning - 10/06/2013

September 2013

Time To Find Some Warm Socks - 09/28/2013
It's the Final Countdown! - 09/11/2013
Icelandic Culinary Delights - 09/04/2013
Signing off E/V Nautilus: Michael Smith - 09/02/2013
Fun, Games, & a little bit of Science - 09/01/2013
Possibly more than you wanted to know about what we do - 09/01/2013

August 2013

From the Boston Tea Party to Tacos - 08/27/2013
Getting More Dives Under My Belt - 08/26/2013
The Deep Blue - 08/20/2013
Settling in New New York - 08/19/2013
Multi-core-apalooza - 08/19/2013
My First Week at Sea - 08/16/2013
Signing off from the R/V Hugh R. Sharp - 08/16/2013
First Night Aboard RV Langseth - 08/14/2013
Welcome to Iceland - 08/12/2013
6 Months In - 08/11/2013
Incoming ROV Intern- Michael Smith - 08/08/2013
Checking in from the R/V Hugh R. Sharp - 08/02/2013
From Satellites to C-Nav - 08/01/2013

July 2013

Counting Down the Days - 07/22/2013
R/V H.R. Sharp Fishing for Rocks - 07/17/2013
Trial by fire - 07/14/2013
R/V Marcus G. Langseth: Leaving the Boat - 07/10/2013
Watching Bubbles and dodging waves - 07/07/2013
R/V H.R. Sharp Georges Bank - 07/06/2013
R/V Marcus G. Langseth: Working in Port - 07/01/2013

June 2013

Hanging out in Davy Jones' livingroom - 06/28/2013
R/V Marcus G. Langseth: BREAKing News - 06/25/2013
R/V H. Sharp: Scallop Photo Shoot and Shucking Party - 06/23/2013
Astoria Oregon... - 06/20/2013
R/V Marcus G. Langseth: A Daily Routine on the Boat - 06/19/2013
R/V BLUE HERON-Duluth Minn./ Lake Superior - 06/17/2013
R/V Marcus G. Langseth: Working out the Kinks - 06/13/2013
The Panama Canal and so much more - 06/12/2013
R/V H. SHARP1: From the West to East - 06/10/2013
R/V Marcus G. Langseth: Collecting the Data - 06/08/2013
Oh what amazing sights we see - 06/05/2013
R/V Marcus G. Langseth: Letting out the Streamers - 06/04/2013

May 2013

R/V Marcus G. Langseth: An Explanation of How Stuff Works - 05/31/2013
Bouncing around THE BAR - 05/31/2013
Staring into the Depths - 05/29/2013
Hard Days of Work - 05/27/2013
Leaving Town with Lasers - 05/24/2013
Whirlwind of Travel - 05/23/2013
Tyler Poppenwimer: R/V Marcus G. Langseth - 05/23/2013
Ship and Shop Maintenance - 05/17/2013
Wires, wires everywhere! - 05/14/2013
R/V Barnes Day trips and More - 05/10/2013
New Langseth Adventures! - 05/09/2013
The Sounds of Silence - 05/05/2013
The Journey Continues - 05/01/2013
In port - 05/01/2013

April 2013

Internal Waves and Whales - 04/24/2013
Langseth Part II: The Mid-Atlantic - 04/21/2013
Northwest Bound - 04/17/2013
Exciting news from the Langseth! - 04/15/2013
Things never go as planned - 04/10/2013
R/V Marcus Langseth: The 2013 MATE Adventures - 04/05/2013

March 2013

Unexpected knowledge comes in handy - 03/25/2013
Don't bight off more than you can chew. - 03/24/2013

July 2012

R/V Marcus G. Langseth: Leaving the Boat - 07/06/2012


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