at sea

we are under way and collecting excellent bathymetric and sub surface
data. yesterday i spent being sea sick as the seas were rough and i
usually get sick the 1st day. pam of the ship's crew provided me with
some bonine and i am now feeling much better, back to 110%!!!

ill post a pic of the bathy and 3.5 kHz screens later today to show
you what we see when we are collecting data. currently, we are
transiting across a wide channel that has a nice record of turbidites.
looks like there is a package of mud (~10m thick) overlying turbdites
of at least ~30m thickness. the mud is probably the holocene and the
turbidites probably represent the pleistocene (which had a much higher
frequency of turbidite deposition). this interpretation is not based
on any core data and is purely hypothetical! the mud package may
actually be turbidites that are muddy and have little density contrast
to show up on the subsurface data.

buddy shane is applying for the mariner position at COAS (soon to be
CEOAS, welcome geoscience buddies!). here is the link to the wecoma
page: http://www.shipops.oregonstate.edu/ops/wecoma/ and the link to
the elakha page: http://www.shipops.oregonstate.edu/ops/elakha/

here is the live web cam for the wecoma: http://webcam.oregonstate.edu/wecoma/

the wecoma does local research, as well as global research. it was
recently in hawaii. where it goes is based on the requests of
researchers and who gets it. the elakha generally stays local as it is
a much smaller boat. good luck to shane.

more later, j-j