LEO Daily Activity - July 9, 1999

		Today's weather	Links to current weather sites
	TODAY: Morning clouds...then becoming party sunny and breezy and more humid. Highs in the mid to upper 80's. Variable winds 10 KT or less becoming S and increasing to 15 to 20 KT. Seas 2 to 3 FT. TONIGHT: Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70's. S Winds 10 to 20 KT becoming SW. Seas 2 to 4 FT.		Current Meteorological data from Tuckerton Current NOAA marine forecast Current NOAA forecast Local Weather

Today's Boat Assignments

Arabella	Installation of two Thermistor String Buoys and ADCPs.	Capt. John Zlotnik, Rose, Bill
Caleta	ADCP/MiniBat Run, three Transects on N-line	Liz Creed, Kristie Andresen, Capt. Ron, and no one else of note
Northstar 4	n/a
Walford	Bio-optics sampling at station N1	Oscar Schofield, Trish Bergmann, Joey Grzymski, Erica Peters, Taylor Newton, Chris Orrico, Sasha, Capt. Mike Danko, Mike Nunez
Zodiac	Initial REMUS Testing for Navigation	Chris Cassidy, Tom Fulton, Tim Prestero

Notable Events and Scientific Results of the day

Today in engineering, JavaScript animations were used to better exhibit the COAMPS model. COAMPS Movies

Walford News: Joe's inflated salad intake finally catches up with him. Our captain and his right hand man, Taylor, spend a good part of the day unclogging part of Joe's colon from the head, while Joe vows the rest of the ship shall experience his wrath. Captain Mike now stocks biohazard suits and gas masks as standard equipment aboard the R/V Walford.

Today's other external results have not yet been reported to Engineering.

Selected Pictures from Today

	Another glorious sunrise starts yet another great day in the field.		Mickey plays with the physics of the refrigerator, leaving a surprise for the next hunger researcher (hopefully Liz).
	The Thermistor Buoys on board the Arabella awaiting deployment today.		The Arabella in the midst of deploying one of the research buoys.
	The crew of the Arabella diligently worked through yet another long day of deploying research equipment in the field.		Each buoy's chain has self recording thermistors attached at every meter. On the bottom, an ADCP (the white cylinder with the yellow protector cap) and it's battery pack (the orange cylinder) collect current profiles.
	The CODAR beach bum himself feigns loss of balance in order to get a quick swim meanwhile, Kristie distracts the captain with her dance.		The R.R. Tolken Junk vanishes into the sunset, never will the hobbits be seen again.
	In a spare moment on the Caleta, Kristie goes for some "light" reading.		Head honcho, Scott Glenn, soberly remarks "This is so much better than last year."
	The Walford out to collect "data."		Proof that today's modelers need Marine Science Degrees in order to get the camera attention.
	While contemplating the mysterious depths of the ocean, Mike experiences a happy moment.		And with the setting of yet another sun, the first week comes to a close as we get outta here for a day off and relieve ourselves of the insanity.