In September I was on to the next thing: my first real life job at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). I work for Britt Raubenheimer and Steve Elgar of PV LAB within the Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering Department, and have found it very strange to be able to google myself. It's never easy to explain my work here as it literally changes every day, but it's a mix of diving, field work, maintenance, and organizing. Field work is by far my favorite part, anything that gets me into water is good in my book.
When I first started our lab was doing work in Katama Bay of Martha's Vineyard. The bay is shown below along with a map of where our current sensors were deployed.
Examples of prepping sensors
Here we attach lead weights to the instrument plate to ensure that currents don't drift our equipment
Here's the crew preparing for a heavy deployment
Here the Stealth with the jet pump in support of a diver
And this is what a full crew looks like. When working ocean side we have a jet-ski available for quick rescues. The nozzle you see in the middle is the jetting pipe. Underneath that divers are using that pipe to blast water into the sand. This liquidizes an area of the sand making it easier to bury our sensors.
We also conducted bathymetric surveys of Katama
You can see the post on the back of the jet-ski. It's recording data on the depth of the inlet.
We also used the GPS surveyor to check on the locations of our deployed instruments
When lots of divers were in someone got to drive on the beach and standby for emergency support
We never listened to this warning no swim sign... it was literally right next to one of our dive sites
PV Lab meeting in the middle of Katama experiment
