Monday, July 18, 2011

NOAA PhytoplanktonTesting - Summer Update

Well today we - Jan, Jeff, and Michael, Ms. W and myself - completed the last of our summer NOAA testing.  I'm so lucky to be surrounded by smart, hard working people!   (Makes my life easier!!!)  We did get a surprise visitor to our net today...a jellyfish mom and child...after we looked at them for a while we sent them on a "new journey"...

Anyway...Matt Brim, the NOAA coordinator for the East Coast, says we are an "exciting monitoring site!"  And we are...we have hit 5 confirmed blooms in 3 months!  No "late bloomers here!"  Is that exciting or what...actually my "investigators" get very excited when they DON'T hit a bloom!  Less than 9,000 please!!!
But we do like a little skeletonema, ditylum, and cosinidiscus in the sample.

We have now been PUBLISHED to the official NOAA monitoring website.  COOL BEANS!!!  I'm so excited I might need to celebrate with a Neutron Energy drink...or just take a nap?

Sunday, July 10, 2011

Half-way through summer!!!'

Hello! I hope all are having a great summer !!!

Me...I've been to the Arch, did a sod delivery,did some "planking",was at Busch Stadium for a Cards game, played some Dominos with Real Cubans,and spent an awesome
e 3 days at a family reunion! Good stuff!

Tomorrow I hoped to be joined by my awesome "other" kids at school for some
NOAA time! 12:00 my room! Yes that means you ...Jeffery, Jan, Michael, and Caroline! All welcome!
If any of you are not avaiable because your out skydiving or sharkfeeding...no worries!