(First posted March 29, 2006. I've been seeing this test show up on Facebook a lot lately, and I knew it was familiar. I just realized that for some reason this was posted privately, which was not what I intended. I must've wanted to edit it more.)

( testing, testing... )

Well, I'm back - we arrived in San Diego Friday morning ( Read more... )

Wow, there's only one more day of fishing after today. Friday will be spent steam back to San Diego, cleaning our cabins, the lab area, refueling and then back the Scripps Marine Facility ( Read more... )

After an all night run, consulting the GPS units in the lab revealed that we were now a bit south of Santa Rosa Island, one of the northern Channel Islands. During the morning soak, the ship was parallel to the trough, and rolling through about 45 - every once in a while you'd here a crash from the galley or somewhere else where some object hadn't ( Read more... )

The morning set was off Osborne Bank, partway between Catalina Island and Santa Barbara Island, both of which were barely visible though the haze. We hadn't quite arrived yet, and dolphins were passing the ship - the chief scientist declared, "Mammals? Not supposed to be mammals here - supposed to be shark country!" As we were baiting and setting ( Read more... )

Roomie's Teacher@Sea log: (apparently took a break today ( Read more... )

Roomie's Teacher@Sea log: http://teacheratsea.noaa.gov/2007/eubanks/pdf/eubanks_log7.pdfRead more... )

Roomie's Teacher@Sea log: http://teacheratsea.noaa.gov/2007/eubanks/pdf/eubanks_log6.pdfRead more... )

Roomie's Teacher-at-Sea log: http://teacheratsea.noaa.gov/2007/eubanks/pdf/eubanks_log2.pdfRead more... )

My roommate's Teacher-at-Sea log: http://teacheratsea.noaa.gov/2007/eubanks/pdf/eubanks_log1.pdfRead more... )