A Chinstrap Penguin. Photo taken on Elephant Island. Current weather: 1002 mB of pressure, no appreciable winds, blue sky, 4C.* Viewed: 1308 times. Vote for this image << Vote >> Excellent Very Good Good Average	This shows the LM Gould tying up at Palmer Station, our departure port and most recent home to some of us. We will return to the Palmer area around the 15th of this month (January, 2004) to run a small transect grid, but will not tie up again until Feb. 2, 2004 - sure to be a reunion to remember. Viewed: 880 times. Vote for this image << Vote >> Excellent Very Good Good Average	This is a picture of the fine cooks on the Gould: Ernest, Nancy and Rudy. Some of their masterpieces include banana bread, mexican night, and an incredible breakfast with bacon every morning. They cook up four meals a day, the 4th less traditional is midrats, served at midnight, for that continually going 24 hour ship. Viewed: 939 times. Vote for this image << Vote >> Excellent Very Good Good Average
Background "The World", Foreground: "LM Gould", Credit: Dave Bresnahan, taken from Palmer station. Also included is a map of the sampling grid to be followed throughout the LM Gould cruise. Note the peninsula outline and the numbered lines we hope to sample in the next month. Viewed: 887 times. Vote for this image << Vote >> Excellent Very Good Good Average	Credit: Greg, one of the LM Gould marine technicians (MT). Location: The Baltic Room, LM GOULD. Jamee is the MT in the picture guiding the CTD (Conductivity, Temperature, Depth) out the door. Once the bottles return full of frigid Antarctic water, scientists come scurrying in to collect water for their different experiments. Viewed: 768 times. Vote for this image << Vote >> Excellent Very Good Good Average	Keeping the LM Gould supplied with power and water 24 hours a day in the Antarctic presents a host of interesting difficulties. These guys bring an incredible amount of experience and expertise to the ship and thus, the energy supplies are unfailing. Years spent at sea develops a host of stories which we are often fortunate to hear in lingering galley conversations. From left to right: Joe Zaborny, Donde Dasoy, Paul Waters, Mike Murphy and Noli Tamayo Viewed: 834 times. Vote for this image << Vote >> Excellent Very Good Good Average
Karen Pelletreau and Peter Horne (both members of Maria Vernet's phytoplankton group, Scripps Inst. of Oceanography, La Jolla CA) are setting up 24 hour incubations of their water samples to gain a measure of how productive the phytoplankton are at the different sampling stations, and from different depths in the water column. One of the perks for the night crew is some beautiful sunsets. (This picture & caption prepared by Shana Rapoport, fotrmerly College of Wm & Mary, VA)* Viewed: 1002 times. Vote for this image << Vote >> Excellent Very Good Good Average	This a profiling reflectance radiometer or PRR. The PRR is the first instrument we deployed when we arrive on a station. Once calibrated the PRR sinks through the water column measuring light levels. We then use the the CTD to collect water at depths having specific percentages of the surface light intensity (sunlight disappears somewhere between 30 and 100 meters depending on the amount of plankton). Wendy and Joe are deploying the instrument off the stern, Erin is reeling in the extra cable and Peter is in the lab monitoring the cast profile. Viewed: 744 times. Vote for this image << Vote >> Excellent Very Good Good Average	The zooplankton crew wrangles a 2 meter net on deck in preparation to deploy it off the stern. They run a 1 meter and 2 meter net tow on each station trawling for krill to run experiments and to generally explore the densities and types of macro plankton in the water column. The small pic in the upper left corner shows the bounty of a typical trawl. From lfet to right: Marine Tech Jamee Johnson, Krill persons Shannon Talley and Robin Cadiz.* Viewed: 831 times. Vote for this image << Vote >> Excellent Very Good Good Average

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