Field Trip!!!!!!!!

This is the lab trip to the Pearl River marsh, La. It was for Geological Oceanography. It was an interesting group, some had never been to the marsh before, and others prefered not to get dirty -- well that could not be avoided :)

This is us on our way out to the marsh 


Charlotte 


Taking sediment cores for foraminiferal identification 


Sampling the sediment 



Moojoon giving surveying a try 



Erik teaching the class how to survey 



Here is the group of us with Charlotte 



Here is the group of us with erik 



The class hanging on Charlotte's every word 



Erik driving the boat 



Learning to use the refractometer 


This just looks funny 

Here i am taking a sample from the mudflat, gee these waiders came in handy 

Pet Gator

This is our pet Gator, he lives here in the ditch at school. I have named him George :)
Ahh. . . the fun things you run into while living in Mississippi

Birthday Weekend

Dinner in New Orleans the night before my birthday, at the old absinth house on burbon street, and then Jazz fest on Saturday



Kevin and Dawn



Pradnya, Ingrid and myself



Ray and I



The group



Jazz fest sign -- I will add more jazz fest pictures later :)


Ray and I

Mardi Gras

Here are some of the pics from this years Mardi Gras

MISSISSIPPI CANYON

Coring off of the Mississippi Canyon (Gulf of Mexico) aboard the Pelican, we are looking for methan hydrates





We are using a gravity coring device to take cores



Retrieving a core



Taking sediment out of the core catcher



Bob Woolsey looking over the deck



Sunset



Here I am proping up the cores