Brendan Floyd -AB (Able Bodied Seaman) Brendan is a 25 years old jokester whose home base is Seattle, Washington. He began working on ships 6 years ago. When he was first trying to decide what he wanted to be when he “grew” up he was unsure where his path would take him. That was until […]
Our view
Day 7 at sea
Hi, my name is Alex Portwood and I am from Sheldon, Illinois. I attend Lincoln Land Community College in Springfield, Illinois. Today, Monday the 16th we started the morning by learning about plate boundaries and the connections throughout the oceans and continents. We learned that there are converging plates, diverging plates, and transform plate boundaries. […]
Flying fish!
SPOTTED: Flying fish! We have been seeing flying fish in the waters, but this morning one landed right on the boat’s deck! Look at the ‘wings’!
Plate tectonics
Today the students learned about the theory of plate tectonics. They used GPS data to calculate how fast and in what direction their school is moving. We learned that our destination of Hawaii is moving quite fast, 44 mm/yr to the northwest!
Day 6 at sea
My name is Miguel Rodriguez. I am from Castroville, California and I attend school at Monterey Peninsula College. My current goal is to receive a degree in the field of Marine Biology. Things I like to do on my spare time is play basketball, watch the stars, and play video games. Today we were introduced […]
Halfway to Hawaii!
Hello Raquel here! We are now about half way to our destination of Honolulu, Hawaii! Already in the first half of the trip we have accomplished so much. We have taken two cores from two different sites and have been filtering seawater continuously for plankton and microplastics. Although we haven’t seen microplastics in our samples, […]
Day 5 at sea
Hello! My name is Alondra Infante, I am 20 years old and from Brownsville, TX. Currently I am attending the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, but Fall of 2016 I will begin at the University of Texas at San Antonio majoring in Environmental Science! Today was our 5th day on this amazing journey and […]
What controls deep ocean circulation?
Today the students are learning about the motion of the deep ocean and thermohaline circulation! We conducted an experiment to investigate how density changes with temperature and salinity.
