Hi all! My name is Lydia Sgouros and in just one, short week, I will be going aboard the R/V Endeavor for my first cruise as a MATE intern. I am from Rhode Island, currently attending Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, where I am a senior in Mechanical Engineering. Last year, some classmates and I started up an ROV team and competed in the MATE International ROV Competition with our robot, the Wobbegong. I loved the unique engineering challenges of the undersea environment and I look forward to learning more about these challenges and the special technologies used to collect data from the depths of the ocean over the next six months.
The Wobbegong [Photo by ROV Team Captain, Rhys Hamlet]
The Endeavor’s homeport is at the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography. In the next couple days, I will drive home, finish packing, and prepare to go aboard. I will be sailing with the Endeavor until April at which point I will head to Bermuda where I will sail with the R/V Atlantic Explorer out of the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences until mid-July. I will post a weekly blog here giving updates about my cool new experiences at sea.
Last year, on Lake Erie. Now to bigger seas! [Photo by Kristina Collins]