Hello World,
Well where did the time go. It has been almost a month since I began my adventure in Alaska and the Arctic through the MATE program. Tasks have been checked off lists, and we are closing in on the completion of this research mission. Today, we had initially planned on deploying a mooring at our Southeast station, which we had to recover once, due to the sound source malfunctioning. Because we also already deployed transponders around the mooring to triangulate, when we re-deploy this mooring, it has to be within the triangle of the 3 transponders, making this re-deployment a little tricky. The weather has been on the rougher side, so the mooring deployment was postponed until tomorrow, and instead, we are testing a different sound source, in preparation for our final mooring deployment station.
In case I was confusing with my wording, we have 2 more moorings left to deploy. And upon completion, we will head down to Nome, Alaska.
It has been a very calm week for the techs. Every system has been running well with no issues, thank goodness, but it has also been a little slow. When there are problems to solve and devices to prepare for deployment, there is more action and things to learn, and I have been missing that a little bit. So, my main mentor Brandon and I decided today that our final week, we will review all the equipment and systems that the marine technicians maintain on the ship, and also work on preparing to store away the CTD rosette. I am pretty excited about that.
Here is to one last week of learning and finishing up this Arctic adventure!
Aloha,