We arranged to meet up outside of the Mayport Navy base at 5
pm. There were 4 vehicles coming from different areas of the Southeast &
everyone made it on time. The science crew is made up of a conglomeration of
NOAA fisheries scientists, graduate students, and one high school teacher
(besides me) who is participating in the NOAA teachers at sea program.
The graduate students are students at University of South
Carolina, East Carolina University & College of Charleston. The NOAA
biologists are from Beaufort, NC, Panama City, FL & Providence, RI. The
high school teacher is a very animated guy from southern Illinois. He is very excited
about his first experience at sea & is interested in bouncing ideas off of
me about ways to incorporate what he is learning into hands-on lessons for his
students. It should be very interesting to talk to him. It will also be good to
get to interact with another teacher & learn some things about
incorporating these types of lessons into my own teaching.
I am excited to get to interact with some folks I’ve known
for several years as well as some new people who I haven’t met before. It will
be really interesting to hear what the graduate students are working on and see
how things are done on this coast. I am excited to get started. We will muster
on the back deck at 9 am tomorrow to start getting a few things rigged &
getting ready to leave the dock. We are scheduled to leave at 2 pm tomorrow.
Let the fun begin!
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