the team!
Geno, Sarah, Isa, and Rich spent 10 lovely days in the Seychelles doing field work. The conditions were ideal (felt like a lake, not the middle of the Indian Ocean!) and we accomplished a lot and met some potential local collaborators and students. We deployed 2 moorings, one on either side of the main island, Mahe. We also collected vertical profiles of currents, salinity, and temperature along transect lines at the north and south ends of the island. Preliminary analysis shows exciting results!
But after 72 hours of traveling time, a 12 hour time difference, and limited internet we were ready to be home!
See a full gallery of images below.
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- day 0 – jetlagged first dinner… oil on bread with pipettes!
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- day 1 – divers prepping for first reconnaissance dive
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- Rich
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- day 2 – our trusty vessel
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- Rich and Isa
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- Seychelles batfish! they like nibbling on you!
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- Geno
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- Isa
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- pretty rocks
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- pretty views
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- testing substrate
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- so calm!
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- the full crew! Sarah, Rich, Geno, Isa
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- arrival of gear
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- day 3 – gear prep
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- how much does our chain weigh?
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- mooring planning
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- Santa Geno
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- ADCP compass calibrations
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- discussing deployment plan
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- day 4 – first deployments!
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- Rich and Isa with Eric
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- tools for diving
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- supervising
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- beautiful rocks!
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- divers heading down
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- Acoustic Doppler Velocimeter (ADV) to measure currents, waves, and turbulence statistics at a point
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- still so calm!
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- dinner at “the Anchor”
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- day 5 – dive planning
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- Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) to measure currents throughout the water column
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- like a lake!
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- Conductivity, Temperature, Depth (CTD) profiling instrument to get vertical profiles of salinity and temperature
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- dinner with students from the Seychelles University
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- day 6 – jenga
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- day 6 – 7 ADCP transects
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- boat-mounted transect measurements with an ADCP mounted at the end of this pole!
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- Isa and Sarah setting up the equipment
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- top of our thermistor (temperature sensor) chain
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- bottom of our thermistor chain (with a CTD)
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- rainbow as the rain starts!
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- rain starts!!
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- post dinner data analysis
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- day 8 – group hike after packing
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- Geno
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- Isa
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- The team
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- Rich
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- Isa
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- end of hike is at the beach!
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- day 9 – visit to the Met Office
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- day 9 – more meetings
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- day 10 – hike before departure
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- west side of Mahe
