Week 3: Camp, Cleaning, and Cartography

 On Monday, Greta and I cleaned SATURN 03. The fishing company there is currently dumping fish waste in to the water. The waste often finds its way into our pumps and clogs them. Fortunately, that didn't happen on Monday and all Greta and I had to do was clean the bottom pump and the valves.
  On Tuesday and Wednesday, Greta and I helped with the Oceanography Camp. Some campers and high school interns came to Ilwaco, Washington where we boarded the Sea Breeze and departed for the Columbia. It was a lot of fun, and I'll talk more about next Friday.
  On Thursday, I spent all day in the office. Reevaluating my methods for developing this map. The new method is using Google Earth which is a lot easier, but a lot less cool. The old method involved using Arcmap which is a really powerful cartography software, unfortunately you have to have considerable training to use it to its fullest.

  In summary, I'm really enjoying working with the instruments and going out on the river, but the project is going slow and the objective and next step is sometimes hard to understand. Computer stuff isn't a strongpoint of mine, but I'm learning.