August 2008
THE CALVINEER LUBEC CRONICLE
We
are up early and Amy and Moe are trying to determine if the Neried
should go out today....heavy winds coming sometime today and they do
not want to get caught in them.
Meredith and Meredith are having quite a time. They are pros at image coding in DIGITS now and coded well over 100 images yesterday much to Amy's joy! What an anatomy lesson. After their initial training we ate lunch (leftover Indian food from the night before). Our cook is Romanian and totally Pollanian too! She volunteers at a local CSA farm and gets much of the food there.
The Calvineers helped launch the Bonita (a small zodiac assist boat) and we cruised over to Eastport making sure we entered Canadian waters just for the feel of leaving the country. We explored Eastport and of course got an ice cream! At low, low tide they could not help but explore the intertidal zone. More data before dinner, some journal writing and then homemade pasta, all kinds...with great sauces.
After dinner more data but another project took over. Tricia Naessig (who is team leader for the Georgia Wildlife Trust team in the calving grounds and is in Lubec for training with the Aquarium) bought a chocolate whale at Monica's Chocolate shop in Lubec. She decided to make the poorly designed Sperm whale into a right whale...specifically 2791. Our Calvineers became totally involved; cutting, melting, foraging in the pantry for just the right callosity and scar materials (pecans and rice!), they helped Tricia create the ultimate 2791 whale. Anatomical details in spades! Of course it was their job to go onto DIGITS and search for pictures of every body part that 2791 has and then recreate the callosities and scars on the chocolate whale.
By the time they finished and presented their creation to the team it was well after 9:00PM. They watched a little of the Olympics with the team and then everyone headed off to bed hoping for a day on the water for the Nereid and a team of seven. As I am writing this e-mail at 5:30AM the weather is not cooperating. The girls are napping hoping that in an hour or so the weather forecast will change and they can help the Nereid crew get off for a day at sea.
Meredith and Meredith are having quite a time. They are pros at image coding in DIGITS now and coded well over 100 images yesterday much to Amy's joy! What an anatomy lesson. After their initial training we ate lunch (leftover Indian food from the night before). Our cook is Romanian and totally Pollanian too! She volunteers at a local CSA farm and gets much of the food there.
The Calvineers helped launch the Bonita (a small zodiac assist boat) and we cruised over to Eastport making sure we entered Canadian waters just for the feel of leaving the country. We explored Eastport and of course got an ice cream! At low, low tide they could not help but explore the intertidal zone. More data before dinner, some journal writing and then homemade pasta, all kinds...with great sauces.
After dinner more data but another project took over. Tricia Naessig (who is team leader for the Georgia Wildlife Trust team in the calving grounds and is in Lubec for training with the Aquarium) bought a chocolate whale at Monica's Chocolate shop in Lubec. She decided to make the poorly designed Sperm whale into a right whale...specifically 2791. Our Calvineers became totally involved; cutting, melting, foraging in the pantry for just the right callosity and scar materials (pecans and rice!), they helped Tricia create the ultimate 2791 whale. Anatomical details in spades! Of course it was their job to go onto DIGITS and search for pictures of every body part that 2791 has and then recreate the callosities and scars on the chocolate whale.
By the time they finished and presented their creation to the team it was well after 9:00PM. They watched a little of the Olympics with the team and then everyone headed off to bed hoping for a day on the water for the Nereid and a team of seven. As I am writing this e-mail at 5:30AM the weather is not cooperating. The girls are napping hoping that in an hour or so the weather forecast will change and they can help the Nereid crew get off for a day at sea.