LEO Daily Activity - July 22, 1999

		Today's weather	Links to current weather sites
	A weak warm front extending from western PA. southeast through the lower Delmarva Peninsula will move slowly northeast and move through the forecast waters by this evening. A weak trough is forecasted to move through the region early Friday TODAY: SE winds 10 to 15 kts becoming south at the same speed by afternoon. Seas 2-3 feet. Scattered showers and thunderstorms with visibility locally 1-3 miles. TONIGHT: SW winds 10 kts or less. Seas 1-2 feet. Visibility 1-3 nautical miles in fog or haze.		Current Meteorological data from Tuckerton Current NOAA marine forecast Current NOAA forecast Local Weather

Today's Boat Assignments

Arabella	Night-time bioluminescence run	Capt John Zlotnik, Joe Debarro, Chris Von Alt
Caleta	ADCP and CTD Cross Shelf Transects	Capt. Ron Van Sant, Bob Chant, Jess Vanesko, Sache Lictenwalner
Northstar 4	Optics transects on the Northern lines	Capt Killer, Oscar Schofield, Trish Bergmann, Lee Kerkhof, Chris Orico, Taylor, Erica
Northstar 6	Turbulence REMUS transect	Ed Levine, Rick Shell, Pete Lecis, Capt. John Idontknowhislastname
Zodiac	REMUS 72 km run.	Tom Fulton, Tim Prestero

Notable Events and Scientific Results of the day

The Webb Ocean Surface Glider completed its first ever open ocean missions, acquiring accurate data for upwelling research.

Tonight the Optics group conducted the first ever Bio-luminescence REMUS run in the world!

The upwelling is still stagnating just below the surface at the coast, but southwesterly winds have begun and are expected to continue for the next few days.

Selected Pictures from Today

	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.
	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).
	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.
	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.
	Oscar reaches for new hights in optical research.		Is this a scene from Jurassic park?
	More fun in the rain.		What is this "thing?"