Hi everyone!
My name is Cassie Ferrante and I will be the UNOLS-MATE intern on the upcoming R/V Neil Armstrong voyage. We’re scheduled to sail from Reykjavík, Iceland to Greenland, then back home to Woods Hole, MA from the end of August through September. Our main science objective is to recover and replace the NSF Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) Irminger Sea Array in an area southeast of Greenland.
Some background on me:
In 2020, I graduated from Colgate University in Upstate New York with a degree in Marine-Freshwater Science. Due to covid travel restrictions, I participated in my study abroad program after graduation. In 2021, I joined Sea Education Association’s Ocean and Climate Program, sailing from California to Hawaii. I absolutely loved sailing and couldn’t wait to get back on the water. Last year, I sailed on the NOAA R/V Okeanos Explorer as an explorer-in-training, a similar internship program to this one except more of a focus on seafloor mapping. Since then, I’ve participated in two terms with the NASA DEVELOP program in Wyoming and Alabama using NASA Earth satellite observations to address local environmental concerns.
I’m thrilled to join the Armstrong and to meet everyone soon!! I’ll be traveling around Iceland for a few days before meeting the boat. 🙂
