It’s been a mix of rain and sunshine here in Seattle for the week of 5/13-5/17. To start out the week, I was tasked with taking apart and cleaning a titrater which is a liquid dispenser that lets out very small controlled amounts. After that, we had to make a new wet end for our CTD on the R/V Barnes with included soldering wire and making a waterproof mold to encase the soldered connection.
Next was cutting old CTD wire cable into 4ft lengths for disposal. Following this task, I finished cleaning the titrater and replaced some parts for good ones. It worked just as well as if it was new after the Broph got done with it.
Then it was time to clean and calibrate oxygen bottles and there was a stack of them to be done. Calibrating bottles is a fancy way of weighing them with and without liquid. A process that I still have to finish. Yesterday the guys from Scripps showed up to start installing a laser on the bow of the Thompson for our next trip to the Columbia River. This laser will collect wave height data for the duration of the trip. So to prep for their arrival, we had to pull out abunch of old Co-ax and Cat-5 wire from the bridge to make room for a new radar and its wire that will accompany the laser. I also had to build and install a computer rack to hold all the CPU’s for this equipment. Time to get back to work!!!