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July 18

Met Barbara Bruno from C-More today. She is here to talk to the K-12 director and higher ed director as well as help out at a Workshop in Corvallis. I am off to go there tomorrow. It is the Microbial Oceanography Workshop. I am quite excited and honored to get to go. I think it will enhance all that I am doing as well as let me be a representative for CMOP.

July 14

This whole week I have been looking at lesson plans on the internet, trying to figure out which ones were any good and which ones use Real time Data. Some say they use it, but it is old or doesn't work right.

Have found mostly ones that monitor weather data, but a couple have some measuring of chlorophyll or color of the ocean to indicate how much phytoplankton is in the water. The COOL classroom sites, CcMoos, from Gulf of Maine, and the Minnesota Beach monitoring program are all great.

Cruise Video Blog: Captain vs. Captain

There is not much R&R aboard a research vessel. With a few minutes of spare time, Captain Rick challenges his fiercest competitor to a game of ping pong.

Cruise Video Blog: What is a CTD?

H, my name is Jeff Schilling and this is my job. (sorry about borrowing the line from Mike Rowe.) Chief scientist Byron Crump has assigned me to a 12 hour shift of performing CTD casts during the research cruise. In today's blog, I learn about the CTD from the marine technician, Dave O'Gorman.

Week 4

Last weekend was the ASE (the program I went through to get this internship) mid-summer conference.
All of the high school students who were chosen for an internship in Oregon met at OSU for two days
There were 3 sessions, mine were all on oceanography which was fun I got to look at how they take cores from the bottom of the ocean. There was a huge fridge full of core samples from as late as the 70s.

Week 4 July 7-10

On Monday were presented our work to Antonio. He gave us feedback and that was great. Tuesday and Thursday I mainly worked on the Estuary Watch web page. On Wednesday all the high school interns created a powerpoint presentation for our parents. We had to show them what we have been doing and what our goals for the summer are. It was fun because we had pizza and I got to hear what the other interns were doing. I was a bit nervous because I had to go first but it turned out to be just fine:)

WEEK 5 some more...

So this week has been pretty slooow...It doesn't seem that there's that much to do after analyzing the ETM data. Sooo we're going to work on our presentations for the ASE Symposium Aug 16...by the way anyone who's reading this is invited...it's at the University of Portland time: to be determined...

Cruise Video Blog: Day One


I have boarded the R/V Wecoma to film what life is like aboard a research cruise. For the next 10 days, I will be shooting, editing, and uploading daily video blogs of the activities aboard ship. In today's blog, we get a quick tour of the R/V Wecoma, undergraduate intern Lauren Vice shows us what she packed for the cruise, and I attempt to put on the emergency life suit in under 60 seconds. Enjoy!
 

14 July 2008 R/V Wecoma cruise - Cape Falcon line

Screen Grab of Forecast animation of surface salinity Today we sampled along the Cape Falcon line, which is just south of the Columbia River Line and is, according to the CORIE forecast, awash with the Columbia River Plume. The CORIE modeling team emailed me an animation of surface salinity in this region, and we conducted CTD casts along the line until we found low salinity water.

Week 5

I spent most of this last week on one of CMOP's research cruises. I had really been looking forward to going out on the Wecoma and living the life aquatic. Unfortunately, as soon as we set out I immediately got terrifically sea sick and had to cut my week-long cruise down to four days. I was really disappointed that my trip had to end prematurely but was also quite relieved to get my feet back on solid ground.

I guess I'll have to cross piracy off my list of possible careers after all.

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