Programs Blog

Friday, 6 June 2025
Noon Position: 42°48.3’ N 070°18.5’ W
Ship Heading: 120°
Ship Speed: 2.1 knots
Log: 229.9 nautical miles 
Sail Plan: Sailing on a port tack with forstays’l, mainstays’l and shallow reefed main backed to slow our speed for science deployments. 
Description of location: Towing our Neuston net while sailing over Jeffrey’s Ledge

Hey mom, dad and family, today has been very eventful and I have learned a lot. Today I had Dawn Watch and saw some creatures immersed in bioluminescence, which was a rare and amazing thing to see. Jeff and Bethany said that they think they were dolphins by the way they were acting in the water. And later in the day, after I caught up on my sleep, I had class and learned how to tie an eye splice. An eye splice is basically just a stronger form of a regular rope; you make it by fraying the rope and intertwining the separate pieces back into a lower part of the rope. It is able to maintain the full strength and durability of the rope, rather than a normal knot would. Then a little later after class I played Uno with my friends and the galley cooked up some rice, a concoction of vegetables, ginger garlic chicken, avocado and spacy mayo. I underestimated the galley’s cooking a LOT, but today was a great and interesting day.
Noah Glenn, A Watch.

Hey y’all, I had dawn watch this morning and worked in the lab with Charlotte. We processed some chlorophyll-a from a phytoplankton net, completed by the watch before us, we completed this first because the lab needs to be the darkest it can be in order for the best results and since it was 0100, it was pretty dark. The bioluminescence that Noah has talked about was very cool to see! After processing the plankton, we started sieving the zooplankton sample and picked out all of the animals or algae greater than 2 cm in size. It was very calming and fun to determine the biomass of the resulting sample using a graduated cylinder and water displacement, meanwhile the sun was slowly rising outside the lab. We had to postpone processing the sediment sample because of the opposite issue of the chlorophyll-a processing, we actually did not have enough light. However, we were able to do a 100-count on our zooplankton sample with 77 Copepods, 18 Zoea, and 5 Ostracods. It has been lots of fun and a voyage full of many interesting things. We were able to finish the 100-count in time to watch the sunrise together and join our deckies (the crew on deck) for a gybe maneuver to avoid an interesting looking squall. Having fun-
Tessa T-C (A Watch)

Broncos Pizza what’s your order? It’s Jack starting to write this from Friday 21:16, people here are very unique it’s disorienting how people from around America can be so different, though I am starting see just how jolly people can live their day to day. Also rolled the Morningstar out of my ankle on Dawn watch so I’m currently chilling on till around 1 AM. Still love Mineos tell Sofi to buy 2 large pizzas when I get home, P.S. pretty sure the plane tickets are wrong , Cheerio!
Jack Bailey A watch
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