Kasey Legaard
Graduate Student -- University of Maine, Orono

I am responsible for monitoring the Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler and the HTI bioacoustics instrument, with Steve Pierce.

What was your most memorable cruise and why?

As an oceanography student, my principle interest is using satellite data to characterize the mesoscale structure of sea surface temperature and surface pigment concentrations throughout the California Current System and other eastern boundary current upwelling regions. Because I use satellite imagery to do this, I don't get out of my cubicle in Maine too much. On top of that, I only recently began studying oceanography. This is my first cruise, and because of that, I'm sure it will be the most memorable for a long time to come. It still blows my mind to walk out on the deck and see nothing but water on the horizon. And after nine days at sea, I am only just now getting used to life on a ship that never stops moving around underneath you.