One day until San Diego…

August 11th, 2010

Well,  we depart for San Diego tomorrow at 6 am to finally start our research cruise.   The time just zipped by!  I spent the past week and a half finalizing and printing my plots, marking our stations on charts, and making notes of which legs of our trip we will want to toss the maggie overboad (apparently the magnetometer's adorable nickname is maggie).  On the side, I've been continuing working on my ray tracing model and drafting up an abtract for AGU.   I still have four weeks left, which seems like a big chunk of time, but I know it will be gone in a flash.  It was kind of strange trying to write an abstract when I haven't really confronted the whole "results" part yet.   Hopefully, in my downtime on the ship, I can add some meat to it and get a better feel for the direction I want to take.  I should have internet access on the ship (which means blog updates at sea) but I am not exacly sure of its reliability.   My first goal is to avoid/minimize seasickness (preferably just avoid).  I have never been seasick but I hear terrible things.  Nonetheless, I am quite excited!! I've packed Captain Crunch, starbursts, and dramamine.  I'm ready to go!