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This week I finally got to start working on "real," relevant webpages that will be prototypes for what might go on the CMOP website later. I designed and created a page, the Station Image Display page, which cycles through stations and displays all the images/graphs as well as some information associated with them. The page looks pretty rough around the edges but the code works perfectly - with input from the field team hopefully we will be able to get the page up and running in a short amount of time.

This week I learned the basics of the SQL language and how to incorporate it into HTML/PHP. I had to figure out a ton of stuff for myself which I am proud of doing. Although it's a headache sometimes trying to fix my code...

Well, my first week here at CMOP was pretty eventful. Before coming here I didn't really know a whole lot but this week, I really learned about the big picture - the CMOP projects that are going on and what scientific questions we are trying to answer. On Thursday I took a trip down to Newport to see the boat that collects data on cruises - this really helped me grasp the importance of the project that my mentors and I are working on. I met a lot of different people and saw many of the scientific instruments that we use to gather data.

Phoebe is now headed north along the inshore waypoints.

Phoebe is about 28 km from the first waypoint. Below are profiles from the last data sent.

Phoebe is headed for the first waypoint of Mission 6 and is about 36 km away. Above are the dive profiles and surface intervals as she goes offshore.

This is the final day of the research campaign. The scientific team and ships crew successfully deployed the NANOOS/CMOP NH10 buoy called Alder. It is equipped with sensors that read wind speed, temperature, relative humidity, solar radiation, and barometric pressure above the water line. Below the water line is a downward looking Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler and several sensors that read temperature, conductivity, pressure, and dissolved oxygen at various depths.

CMOP Field Team from left to right: Nate (volunteer), Greta, Katie, and Michael

We are in the Columbia River estuary performing CTD measurements during slack tide. The weather for the research cruise has been sunny with calm seas. All that good weather is something the CMOP field team isn't use to. They are more accustomed to gray skies and rain, the typical working conditions around Astoria.

Fact is that Astoria ranks number one as the cloudiest city in America. The area has 240 cloudy days per year. They also rank third as the wettest city with 191 days per year of rain. (Source: The Weather Channel)

So when we entered the Columbia River estuary and it was a miserable rainy day, the field team felt right at home.

Phoebe is headed for her first waypoint at 4652.000N, 12500.000W and is approximately 27 km away, as of 8:44 this morning. The graph shows the depth profile.