| July 19, 1999 | |||
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Erica and Cris get ready to deploy an optical profiler off the side of the Northstar 4. With any luck, they'll knock a fish out for dinner. | |
Oscar brainwashes yet another RU graduate student (poor Trish, someone should warn her). |
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Erica Peters hard at work on the Northstar 4. | |
Always the gentlemen, Killer watches as the girls do the dirty work. |
| July 20, 1999 | |||
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Every busy day at the Rutgers Field Station ends with a glorious sunset. | |
Chris von Alt steers the WHOI Minnow to retrieve a REMUS after it's run. |
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After a 72 km mission, the REMUS surfaces exactly as expected within 50 feet of the boat. | |
The REMUS is carefully lifted aboard the raft. |
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The REMUS sturdily attached to it's special carrying rack on the WHOI Minnow. | |
Tom Fulton and Tim Prestero carry the tired REMUS back to it's shore home. |
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The CTD sensors in the REMUS are carefully rechecked in the static sea tank to insure they have not lost their calibration. | |
Wave "Hi" to the guys playing in the sea tub. Now where's that rubber ducky. |
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The REMUS in "da tank." | |
The Atlantic Surveyor with Jess and Liz waving from the deck. |
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Liz and Nick work on the Met Buoy aboard the Surveyor. | |
Some wacky dude on the Surveyor. |
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It's Jellyfish time! | |
The Northstar 4 returns to the station. |
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The sun sets behind the field station. | |
Another beautiful close to an awesome and busy day! |
| July 21, 1999 | |||
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The Webb Ocean Surface Glider is tested in the sea tank. Tomorrow will be it's first ever mission. | |
All of our marine vessels rest in dock today for a much needed day off. They include the Northstar 6, WHOI Minnow, Caleta, Arabella, and Northstar 4. |
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Two of WHOI's REMUS vehicles await instructions from mission control to launch into the ocean and collect data. | |
Our ocean modelers work diligently to figure out how many Ph.D's and computers they can fit into one small room. |
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The WHOI raft, also known as the Minnow, departs the station to deeply REMUS vehciles on their missions. | |
Dwight and Eric get down and sing kariokee in Engineering. |
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California optics computer guru, Dwight, just loves the camera. It's inherent in his Optical/Hollywood genes. | ||
| July 22, 1999 | |||
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The Webb Ocean Surface Glider back home on it's carrying rack after it's first ever mission in the ocean. | |
Jess and Bob man the SeaBird profiler onboard the Caleta. Sometimes, you just gotta take data by hand. |
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Another hard worker at the institute, Jess tests out the comfortability quotient of a cushion far out at sea. | |
Sage meticulously removes a starfish which was dislodged inside the MiniBat during one of it's Sea Floor missions (note: it's not supposed to go there). |
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The optics groups transfers their precious cage of animals from the Northstar 4 to the Arabella. | |
The cage comes up from it's night-time run. |
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Ohh, look at the pretty colors from the Bio-luminescence profiler. | |
Joe and Oscar do a little astronomical observations. "So, Oscar. What's your sign?" Joe was quoted as saying. |
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Oscar reaches for new hights in optical research. | |
Is this a scene from Jurassic park? |
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More fun in the rain. | |
What is this "thing?" |
| July 23, 1999 | |||
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Our computer geek, John, sports the latest in Birdbrained fashions. | |
Bob directly controls data collection on the ship Caleta from the bridge at the field station. Such real-time commands include "Float Caleta" and "Sink Caleta" depending on the mutiny coefficient of the crew. |
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At the heart of hurricane George is always "Mini-Me." | ||
Last Reviewed: July 27, 1999