On Monday morning we docked in St. John’s Newfoundland, where we picked up the rest of the science party and crew. Many of us had never been there before so we spent some time exploring the city and hiking along the coast. We got lucky with great weather!

To the right is a photo of the pilots boarding the ship before we entered the harbor. Below are two photos from the trail, one of the Armstrong docked next to a Canadian fishing vessel and one of the neighborhood along the trail.

Once again, this week has been slow for science so I have been working on more small projects. When we left port on Wednesday, I relabeled many of the servers and computers on the ship with their new IP addresses that they were given recently. This task has definitely helped me become more familiar with these machines. I’m continuing to practice with the 3D modeling software and have been busy printing some identification tags that the engineers have requested (pictured below). Aside from those two projects, I’ve been spending much of the last few days going through interactive Linux tutorials on my laptop.

Although we have been transiting for most of the week, we stopped a few times on Wednesday to deploy RAFOS floats, which track the motion of the water in the ocean. We will hopefully get to our first CTD station off the east coast of Greenland by Tuesday!