First day on Forerunner
July 17, 2007
Today we went out on Forerunner for the July ETM Chase REU Cruise. We were accompanied by a small group from the Northwest Aquatic Marine Educators (NAME) conference that was in Astoria. We departed at around 10:00am and headed upstream a little ways to do a CTD cast and take a freshwater sample. We then headed downstream to AM169 and proceded to do CTD casts and samples. We repeated this proceedure at Green 33, Green 35, 1Km intervals for four Kilometers, Red 26, and Red 22. At Green 33 we attempted to create a moderate siphon, using 2" diameter tubing, to obtain larger samples of water. Unfortunately the length of tubing was not long enough for the site so we continued taking samples with the niskin bottle. Then we went up to drop the NAME group off before taking one last CTD cast and sample. Then we headed back to dock and arrived at around 7:00pm.
Setup
Lydie with NAME group
Michael with the niskin bottle
Sending the CTD and the hose over
Timing
Discussion
Working below
NAME group