Traveling to Georges Bank

It's been smooth sailing for the past two days as we made our way to Georges Bank and began the many scientific tasks planned for this outing.  I boarded the R/V Endeavor at the Bay Campus early Thursday morning and we left promptly at 9:00 am.

The seas have been calm and the sun has been shining.  The many scientists and grad students have been keeping the 4 classroom teachers on board busy with soundings, pongs, and XBT's (expendable bathythermogrpah).  We lowered a CTD (conductivity thermal depth) device in order to take thousands of pictures of phytoplankton and zooplankton.  In the middle of the night, we lowered newly designed sensors into the water to be tested and monitored.  It's amazing to see all the work that happens "after" hours on this ship.