Grant Law's blog

Tawnya Peterson and Josh Manger discuss a CTD deployment

Sorry for being a bit late in starting my blog for the September New Horizon cruise. It's taken a little while to fall into the groove of shipboard life, but I think we are all grooving along...like Bootsy Collins over a Clyde Stubblefield jam.

What a fun exercise this has proven to be! It's pretty ambitious to inject a cloud of fluorescein dye in the Pacific ocean and expect to find it again, but it is doable. By applying wind data, drifter pathways, circulation model solutions to a general understanding of how the ocean functions, we have been able to find our dye patch. Not perfectly, mind you. The ocean still holds some of her secrets from us, but her general nature is clear -- thankfully.