We arrived in New Orleans on time at 1815. However all of our luggage (Brandt, Sellinger and Kolesar) was lost. This luggage has all of our cruise clothes. We hope it arrives before our scheduled 1500 departure tomorrow, but still no word (2230). Had dinner with most of the rest of the research cruise participants [...]
AUGUST 30, 2010 The Expedition Begins Kolesar, Sellinger and Brandt are currently at the Portland Airport. All scientific instrumentation has been shipped to Louisiana. Today’s schedule takes us to New Orleans with a scheduled arrival time of about 1830. We pick up a van at the airport and are scheduled to meet other members of [...]
Since 2003, with NOAA-CSCOR funding our team has conducted 5 summer cruises in the northern Gulf of Mexico that used high-resolution sampling to define the spatially-explicit relationships between physical structure to pelagic zooplankton and fish distributions. In short, we have one of the most comprehensive, synoptic data sets on temperature, salinity, oxygen, phytoplankton, zooplankton and [...]