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We’re all at the airport now, awaiting our flights back to Oregon, Maryland, and Florida. There is a van on its way back to Michigan with a freezer full of fish samples from the trawl. The shipping company will be … Continue reading →

Whoops, the TS plot I put up the other day (here) was completely wrong, but I’ve fixed it in the previous post and put it again here. Enjoy!

Our work is done here. In fact, as I write this, I’m sitting in my living room. It’s 5:30 AM and I just got back, checked on the family and sat down in my chair because I’m a bit wired … Continue reading →

We passed a long quiet night with the Scanfish in the water, collecting data, reminiscing about cruises past, and of course, hitting the ice cream freezer hard.  Mapping the conditions is not the most exciting thing we do in terms … Continue reading →

We wrapped up a successful week of sampling with our final net tows and niskin bottle collections yesterday.  With the help of the amazing crew and fellow scientists on board, we got into a good swing of things collecting samples from low oxygen … Continue reading →

We arrived at Station 858 this morning – a classic station on the east side of the channel just south of the Chesapeake Bay bridge.  Generations of scientists have occupied this beautiful site for sampling surveys and experiments.  You can … Continue reading →

We began the day with a CTD cast at our main sampling station, which we are calling LIDZ-1.  We fired a niskin bottle just to check and found that the bottom water smelled strongly of hydrogen sulfide.  So we missed … Continue reading →

The gathering of the delightful little creatures we know as copepods began on Saturday. At dawn, morale was high as we collected some samples with net tows and CTD bottles, continuing at noon, dusk, and midnight. On the DeZoZoo cruise, … Continue reading →

Daniel Lee and I got up at 0430 to look at the scanfish data.  Daniel processed the data with Seabird software, and plotted oxygen concentration and salinity using Surfer software.  Yesterday we scanfish-ed through the “hydraulic control point” south of … Continue reading →