September 30, 2010 seafloor

 
Here is a picture of the seafloor mud at around 2500 meters. The water is on the top and there is a small worm burrow in the center of the photo. It looks like a little hole. Can you find it?

 
Here is another mud photo and at the surface there are very thin arms of starfish. It's a special kind of starfish called a brittle star. Can you find them?

September 30, 2010

 
My room, I get to sleep in bunk beds.

 
I have the bottom bunk.

 
More preparation to shrink the cups. This will make sure they return from the seafloor.

 
Preparing the cups for shrinking.

September 29, 2010 more photos

 
Survival Suit inside bag.

 
This is Kersey, he is one of our camera technicians and was the volunteer who demonstrated how to put on a protective suit. This whole suit fits into that little bag.

 
This is the inside of the camera system that will take our photos on the seafloor. I will send you photos once we have them.

September 29, 2010

 
Western Flyer, two hulls
 
Point Sur, single hull

 
Seafloor Camera on the Outside

Sept 29, 2010

Hello Everyone,

Thank you for sending me such nice photos! I'm so glad that you were able to check the blogsite. Our internet connection wasn't working yesterday so I was unable to be on-line while you were in computer lab.

To answer your question, I saw some clams yesterday. Today, I hope to see some sea cucumbers and special starfish! We have had a few technical problems with our camera system that required us to work for several hours fixing connectors and switches, but we think that we have all this fixed. As soon as we have some good images of the seafloor I will post them for you. I have a photo of the camera insides that I will post next.

Pam

Hello from Mullen Hall!

Hello from Mullen Hall! Hope your research is going well! Today we read about whales. What have you seen so far on the ocean floor?

Hello!

Hi Pam,
We will be in the computer lab tomm around 2:15 where I will show the class your lastest posts and we will send you questions and their comments. They will be very excited! Hope all is well!
Kate

 
Down to the engine room.

 
Where I'll be eating breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

 
Some very ripe bananas!

 
Our neighbor, the Western Flyer. This ship is a catamaran. I'll take photos and show you the difference between a single hull and two hull (catamarn) ship.

Stay tuned for more!
Pam

Monday, September 27, 2010

 
This is called the A-Frame on the stern (back) of the ship. We use this to deploy and recover our science equipment. That's Andrew our Marine Technician in the photo.

 
Check out all the ropes. We use these to help us steady equipment and tie things to the deck so they don't move around and get lost overboard. I call it the rope locker.

 
Looking up at the bridge where the Captain and 1st Mate will navigate our ship to our sampling stations. Later I'll take photos inside the bridge.

 

This is the area where we keep things that may be wet from working on the deck. Can you find our safety boots? Do you remember what they looked like?

Travel Day-Septebmer 26, 2010

 
That's a real sea otter! It's near the middle of photo, head on left side.

 
View of Monterey Bay

 
Cannery Row. It's called cannery row because this was a place were sardines were processed and canned. Do you like sardines?

 

Here are your cups sitting in the airplane seat next to me on our way out to California.

Hi Everyone,
It's Sunday and I traveled from Boston to California with the cups. I arrived in Monterey around 6PM Cape Cod time. Tomorrow, I'll be at the ship working and will take more photos to post to the blog. The ship leaves for our field site on Tuesday morning.

You may be wondering what exactly I'm doing out here for research. I'm going to be looking at the seafloor sediments at depths ranging from about 1500-3000 meters to make sure the sediments look like they have healthy biological communities (worms and other animals). We have a very special camera to use and I'll show you pictures of it and the kinds of photos it takes later this week.

More tomorrow!

Pam (Abby's Mom)

2 More

 

I found these two in my purse!

Un-Shrunken Cups

 

Can you find your cup? Thank you for a fun day and watch for new posts.

Photos of the R/V Point Sur

 
 
 

Welcome to Sea Survey 2010-Ms. Berry and Ms. Wood's Class

Hello Everyone,

Welcome to my sea survey blogsite. I have set up this site so that Mrs. Berry and Mrs. Wood's 1st grade class at Mullen Hall Elementary School can communicate with me while I'm doing research on the R/V Point Sur from September 27-October 3, 2010. Please ask questions about the ocean, marine animals, and what happens on the seafloor. You can also ask about the work I'm doing and I will have lots of questions to ask you about what you are learning in school. I'll try to check at least once a day during school hours so might be able to "talk" to each other in real-time. I will post photos on this site of the ship and the things we do. You can post photos of what you're doing for me to see, also.


Pam Neubert (Abby's Mom)