November 13, 2012

Eileen Hayes
Favorable seas are predicted this time around, so keep your fingers crossed for us as we head back out! The Bellows left the dock around 09:00, and we are returning to the first station of the Southern transect.

There have been just a few crew changes for this trip. Our new captain is Dave Coy. His first mate (assistant captain) is Billy Coker. The engineer/deck hand is Dave Kennedy, and the cook is, once again, Patrick, our culinary expert. Also, Jami Compton will be taking Tim Lee’s place. She is a USF
graduate and currently works at the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

Left to Right: Jami, Abby, Teresa and Leslie on the mess deck.

Dr. Teresa Greely pouring a water sample from the CTD into the filtration system in the inboard wet lab.

So far, so good!

We reached the first CTD station around 14:00, the winch was used to deploy the CTD, and the Niskin bottles were triggered by the lab computer to collect water samples from varying depths. Upon retrieval, the samples were bottled, labeled, and brought into the lab for filtration. Samples were then preserved for future analysis back at the USF lab.

Water filtration station (ignore the soda boxes - they aren't part of the system!)