Day One...

While the title may seem promising, I can assure you that I will not have time to do daily posts. Why is that you say? Well my dear friends it's because I'm spending the term at the Hatfied Marine Science Center. And I can say with some degree of confidence that it's going to be a very challenging and busy term, but it's going to be amazing.

This morning we woke up to find a lovely sunrise coming over the coast range onto the estuary and the campus. Despite the lovely sun it was still very cold so we all traipsed over to the library (not a long walk at all) for orientation and other welcomes. We were treated in the afternoon to a tour of the R/V Wecoma which was docked for a little bit before taking off on other research adventures. While on board I kept wanting to sing the songs from 'The Life Aquatic', but resisted the urge to do a Zissou style tour of the boat. Still lots of fun though since it's not to often that someone such as me gets to go on the Wecoma. Here's a picture of the Wecoma as it's going out under the Newport bridge.