We had a glorious day aboard the Auklet. Heading down to Northern Montague we saw a humpback whale, lots of Dall's Porpoises, a pod of Resident (fishing eating) Orcas, all the more spectacular becuase a great ball of hydrogen and helium plasma was visable in a blue sky. Luckily videographer Deborah Mercy, from the Alaska Sea-Grant Marine Advising Program, was there to see it all as we did CTD casts and Biological Sampling.
We had just put the CTD cast in the water of Green Island when a humming bird buzzing at full speed zoomed into the Auklet's cabin. The confused bird needed help finding its way out (i.e. not via the closed windows), so we had to delay sending the instrument down and help it to freedom.
-Kerstin
Your Correspondent
- Leslie Abramson
- Cordova, Alaska, United States
- Leslie has worked as a professional mariner, diver and outdoor educator with Outward Bound and NOAA. She recently received her Masters degree in Coastal Marine Resource Management from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Leslie is excited to be working with the Prince William Sound Science Center as a Marine Research Technician for the 2009 Field Experiment and looks forward to serving as the Official Blogger of the project!
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