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Watching the Washington shoreline go by while steaming back towards Astoria

A large subset of the True Blood fans enjoying episode 37 in the lounge. Guess which ones secretly wish they were vampires! From left to right: Michelle Maier, Justin Reina, Sara Bender, Colleen Durkin, Caroline Fortunado, and Pete Kahl.

The FlowCAM display builds a collage of the various tiny organisms pumped past its lenses

Despite the reputation science enjoys -- perfectly white lab coats, neatly organized clipboards for recording data, and fancy expensive machines with beeping flashing lights -- stuff goes dirty and wrong all the time. Consequently, we learn to be constantly on guard for equipment failures...well, perhaps memory failure is more often the culprit, but we're getting better. Honest.

One of many photos taken of the beautiful skies we enjoyed this evening

Just about everything about the day has been dramatic -- fantastic skies, near-catastrophic accidents, and alien visitations. Ooh, and I ID'd a pomarine jaeger!

 
A weight of confused albatrosses follows along behind the New Horizon, wondering when we are going to pull up our nets.

Tawnya Peterson and Josh Manger discuss a CTD deployment

Sorry for being a bit late in starting my blog for the September New Horizon cruise. It's taken a little while to fall into the groove of shipboard life, but I think we are all grooving along...like Bootsy Collins over a Clyde Stubblefield jam.

Well it's the end of the internship and to say the least I had an awesome experience. The final presentation went well and I think everyone who attended had a good idea of the basis of my project and the results obtained.  Overall the compliance between everyone at CMOP was very helpful especially from my mentor Mariya, senior scientist Holly and the rest of Simon lab (they were great).  To be honest I didn't expect to develop such a close friendship with the other interns but we all had a great time together.