The fruit of 2.5 days travel has just passed by in the last 14 hours. I was on shift for 5 of them. Out of the 10 stations we collected data at, I operated the equipment for 4 of them. I did not break anything, nor did I get yelled at, we'll call this a great success.
Time to go home (another 2.5 days travel)....
All this time and money...and for what? Apparently these Dissolved Oxygen surveys have been conducted since 1982 by the EPA because it was discovered that Lake Erie becomes anoxic during late August (ppm<2 vs 9ppm during this survey). According to the EPA scientists on board, this happens like clockwork every year and he wonders why time and money are wasted on this when they could be focused on other, newer points of interest (nearshore activity). I ask the same question, why not run this survey every 5 years from a ship based in Lake Erie to see if the pattern ever deviates from what we have mapped out at the present time? Seems like a reasonable proposal, so it will probably never happen.
Detroit is a much nicer city than you might have been led to believe (or at least I was...)...from the water anyway...I got to see the Joe Louis Arena and GM place, the two things that stuck out for me anyway...Windsor, Ontario just across the river still looks like a better place to be...must be tough to live in Detroit, just for that one reason alone.
Time to go home (another 2.5 days travel)....
All this time and money...and for what? Apparently these Dissolved Oxygen surveys have been conducted since 1982 by the EPA because it was discovered that Lake Erie becomes anoxic during late August (ppm<2 vs 9ppm during this survey). According to the EPA scientists on board, this happens like clockwork every year and he wonders why time and money are wasted on this when they could be focused on other, newer points of interest (nearshore activity). I ask the same question, why not run this survey every 5 years from a ship based in Lake Erie to see if the pattern ever deviates from what we have mapped out at the present time? Seems like a reasonable proposal, so it will probably never happen.
Detroit is a much nicer city than you might have been led to believe (or at least I was...)...from the water anyway...I got to see the Joe Louis Arena and GM place, the two things that stuck out for me anyway...Windsor, Ontario just across the river still looks like a better place to be...must be tough to live in Detroit, just for that one reason alone.
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