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The information on this site is from the September 2011 Chief Scientist Training Workshop aboard the R/V Wecoma.  If you are looking for information on the current Chief Scientist Training Workshop please visit http://csw.unols.org.

Hi ho, oceanographer called Paul here, reporting on the pteropod (pelagic marine snail) situation.  It seems that there are many free-swimming marine snails!  One in particular called Limacina helicina keeps coming up in Tucker trawls, which are deployed from the … Continue reading →

This is Laurel Childress reporting in on gravity cores.  As part of my research to investigate the offshore and down-canyon transport of organic carbon we will be collecting several gravity and multi-cores from the upper, middle, and lower reaches of … Continue reading →

Zoltan Szuts here, reporting on the design of the cruise plan. Once we were accepted to the cruise training program, the first order of business was coming up with a cruise plan.  The science directs research cruises, and depending on … Continue reading →

Hello! Amy Maas here, one of the early career investigators involved with the UNOLS training cruise from September 18th – 25th. This cruise is an opportunity for me and 13 other scientists to learn the ins and outs of planning … Continue reading →