This week The other MATE intern and I were introduced to the R/V Sharp and our mentor. Our mission is to support a NOAA fisheries science team in a scallop survey. Christian the R/V sharps technician has spent this week introducing us to the onboard computer system and how collected data is managed and backed up. This week consisted of primarily habcam operations and has been very light work on the technical side of things. I therefore have been spending most of my time supporting the NOAA team by piloting the habcam winch and annotating images of the sea floor by marking scallops. Overall the workload has been relatively light I am very excited for the dredging during the second leg of the cruise.