Hello and welcome to my blog for the next 6 weeks while I am aboard the Healy 1802 cruise out of Dutch Harbor, AK. I am a recent graduate of the University of Washington with a Bachelor’s degree in mathematics. I was pointed towards this internship by Dr. Fritz Stahr of the oceanography department at UW while on a study abroad program in Australia and thought it would fit my skillset very well and would also be a great opportunity to gain valuable experience. This will be an internship of firsts for me and will definitely be my longest cruise. Seeing the ice covered Arctic Ocean and being able to support the science that is taking place is what I am most looking forward to as welll as taking in anything I can. Overall I am greatly looking forward to getting aboard the Healy and to get things moving. I will be back very soon with another update of how things are kicking off here in Alaska!