As I turn in a circle and look around, all I can see is blue. Blue is in the sky when I look up, and on the “ground” when I look down. The blue on the ground is moving. It goes up and down and sometimes twirls around. When the wind picks up, the peaks […]
Woman at Sea
“I hope the fathers and mothers of little girls will look at them and say ‘yes, women can’.” -Dilma Roussete Women make up only an estimated 2% of the world’s maritime workforce. Seeing that not many women go in this kind of workforce, there is a very special person here at […]
Just a Pteropod in a Really, Really Big Pond
As the sun rose behind the clouds I watched as two birds confidently approached the RV Endeavor. Other than the occasional Man O War floating by and all of the mysterious creatures living an unseen life below us, the swift movements of the birds tailing the stern reminded me of how isolated we are from […]
Disabled at sea.
As a person with varying degrees of mobility issues, thanks to a leg that I often lovingly and begrudgingly refer to as “robot leg”, (due to the amount of metal hardware inside that always gets me a pat down at airports) why would I even attempt to go out to sea? Because, even though I […]
Steaming by Bermuda
It is our third day at sea here on our lovely ship, the R.V. Endeavor. Today we are passing through Bermuda’s waters on our way to Barbados. The weather today was simply beautiful. This morning I spent some time working with Justin, one of the graduate students working with Dr. Montoya, to help him put […]
Leaving the Sikuliaq
Today is Saturday February 10. After sailing for a week straight we are all rather excited to leave the cramped ship quarters. However this past week has been very eye opening for all of us. Over the seven days of sailing we have done many CTD casts, a few sediment grabs, and drills with the […]
Experience to Remember
This is being written on our final day of the Sikuliaq, we are docked in Newport an its a clear day out with some clouds in the distance. We did a lot during this 10 day trips. We attempted to do gravity cores in the Santa Barbara Basin, that failed an the gravity core was […]
Graduate School Discussion
As undergraduate students at all different levels, thinking about the next steps in our careers; for many of us that is graduate school. For some of us it is graduate school at the master’s level or PhD level. After breakfast the graduate student Elena, who attends Scripps Institute of Oceanography gave a discussion on the […]
Deep CTD and fire training
Today the seas have calmed down quiet a bit and everyone was starting to get their sea legs. The past few days the waves have been 2-4 feet. The waves today are about 1-2 feet, which was nice. Today the crew had to go through Fire Training, which entailed learning how to use an oxygen […]
Blast Horn
I was awakened at around 4 am to this horn being blasted off every 10 minutes or so. I laid in bed trying to figure if that was the three long blast to signal man overboard? No, the blasts weren’t that long and there was definitely more than three. Were they the 6 short blast […]
