Weather is a mess!

The morning research cruise is cancelled. It's not nice being outside here today, let alone go on a boat on the ocean!!!

Teeny, tiny critter site

Here's another site that lets you look at teeny, tiny small critters that are ocean plants.

http://www.bigelow.org/foodweb

Busy Wednesday!

We heard from several different speakers today. We even did an experiment to show turbidity, or how clear water is. We participated in a video conference.
The Giovanni site, http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/giovanni/, has some great maps that you can search. You select the different things you want to view in the map, zoom into an area much like you do in My World, and it gives you the data sets on a map. You can also then view the data sets in raw form or as graphs.
Something else I learned today that I never thought about before.......1/2 of all the oxygen we breathe is due to phytoplankton.

A view of the propeller....YES....a propeller....NO JET!!!!

A picture I took of the landing gear from my plane window.

The sun shining off of the water while in the plane with the propellers!!!!

I made it fine to Salisbury and now I'm at Wallops Island. It's a coastal observations workshop for NASA Explorer Schools. We had filet mignon for dinner. Our "dorm" has each of us with our own room and it's like a motel room. I'm one of the van drivers, so I got to drive from the Salisbury airport. I left my house at 6:30 this morning. We pulled into the NASA facility to get our badges at 6:30. Interesting day today.

Hurry up and wait....

Right now, I'm eating lunch at the airport in Charlotte, NC. My flight out of Charleston was late. If I had driven to Wallops Island, I'd already be there! This just makes it more of an adventure. ;)

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum

Saturday, we headed to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum in the morning. It was fascinating stuff! The architecture is interesting. The picture is of one of Elton John's shoes that he wore during his tours in 1974-76.
The last picture is of Amy and I at the House of Blues just before the BB King concert.
We ate lunch at Hard Rock Cafe and then headed home. It was a fun but fast trip!

BB King