Author: Kristine Prado-Casillas

Hello Readers! This past week has been awesome learning new things but pretty intense with back-to-back deck operations. Let’s dive in 🙂 9/16 Today, I practiced my CTD termination! Since we have yet to make a new CTD termination but instead have made a new trawl winch termination, I have been using scrap cable from…

Hello Readers! So far on this current cruise, everything has gone great and as I am writing this, we are heading back to port a day early! But I have to catch you all up to what I have been doing this past week! My fifth day during this internship was learning quite a few…

Hello Readers! As I write, it is currently day 6 into my MATE internship working with my mentor, the lovely Grace Fulton on the Pt. Sur, and let me tell you… I have been learning A LOT! On my first day aboard the Pt. Sur, I had just flown in from Seattle that evening and…

Hello reader! My name is Kristine Prado-Casillas and I will be interning aboard the R/V Pt. Sur! I recently graduated from the University of Washington with a Bachelor of Science in Oceanography. During my time at UW I participated in a number of research cruises aboard the R/V Rachel Carson and R/V Thomas G. Thompson. My…