The 2009 PLRP Gang

Hail hail the gangs all here!!!

Congratulations Stephanie

Yesterday Stephanie Nebel successfully defended her masters thesis on a project that examined storm and decadal time scale barrier island shoreline retreat.

A wonderful accomplishment for Stephanie who will continue on in our PhD program.

Here Stephanie, Nicole, Hilary, and Ella all join in for a post-defense dinner celebration.

Kudos Steph!!
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Improvised sun shade

Here we see Dr. Levin sporting an improvised sun shade while operating the ROV.
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ROV Operations!

Today the TIDE students helped operate the small ROV that Doug Levin kindly provided.

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CTD data aboard RV Sharp

Here is a plot of a CTD cast from DE Bay we collected yesterday.
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ROV pool day!

Today the TIDE students are at the indoor pool to test their newly crafted ROVs. They spent the last few days building the bots with help from Adam, Stephanie, and Trevor.

After hours of building and wiring today they finally get to see how their ROVs maneuver.

We also have the little Video Ray ROV here (courtesy of Doug Levin) for the students to try their hand at a real commercial unit and compare the performance and features.

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MIMO module assembly

Yesterday we spent time in the lab working on ideas and arrangements for mounting the MIMO module and especially considerations of how to configure the towed array.

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