Supersucker (see pic)

is doing it's thing. Made one pass south to north along our transect during the day yesterday.  That process takes ~4hrs at the rate were are 'steaming', ~1.5kts.  During that transit, we were sampling on a minor flood tide.  There was structure in the water column top-to-bottom but not as extreme as when the estuary is discharging.  Unfortunately, at the end of the transect, a technical difficulty was encountered - blew a fuse on supersucker - we had to pull her onboard for servicing rather than turn around and 'head south'.  The problem was with a splice in the cable - had to re-terminate.  Did that with considerable effort trying to 'sus' what's up.  Thankfully, Burke (with Dale's assistance) is a wizard with this supersucker!  After a little rest, we put the package back in the 'drink'.  That is where it is now - doing an exciting North-toSouth transit of our transect during a major ebb - very cool to watch these data stream in.  The first observations are made at Command Central (see pic).  Then, chemical data appear at the onboard continuous monitoring sites: rapid flow nutrients (see pic), pCO2/TCO2 and the FMA (latter measurements all by some sort of IR).

That's it for now ... need to get back to helping with the maintanence of measurements on this campaign.

P.S. The transect information that Joe Cho has provided us with from model output are proving to be very useful and will help to guide Caroline Fortunato in her plume sampling later today and tomorrow.  Thanks Joe for your quick response to our last minute request from the field.

Fred Prahl,