Underway

The view leaving Nuuk.  Bye Nuuk!

We are finally underway.  The internet connection is very slow so I hope that the few photos that I took this morning will load.  We had a safety and security meeting yesterday and this morning proceeded with the fire and evacuation drills.  The seas are definitely choppy, but the ship is comfortable and pretty quiet.  

This morning I modified the display settings for the CTD acquisition software.  For those of you that are unfamiliar with a CTD (Conductivity, Temperature and Depth), it is really just a bank of sensors that collect environmental data.  The sensors are placed onto a frame that allows for a full profile of the water column and allows us to collect water samples on a "rosette" at pre-determined depths.  For more information concerning CTD's and how they work, visit http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/facts/ctd.html.  

We have a science meeting at 1 pm this afternoon, but I expect us to get sciency (not a real word) very quickly. 

Pre-cruise ship familiarization meeting.

Gumby has a friend.