Port stop: Montego Bay, Jamaica!

Clyde is ready for a port visit!

Greetings blog followers! Today we say hello from ... Montego Bay, Jamaica!

NF track from NOAA Ship tracker as we approached Jamaica

Finally the scientists and crew from leg 1 get a break from 24 hour operations (and without any days off since they departed from St. Thomas, USVI back on April 11!). During this break, the ship refuels, refills the pantry, performs maintenance that can only be done when the engines are not working amongst many other routine ops. As for the science crew, they download and process data (like in the figure below), fix equipment, exchange personnel and of course get to walk around in land for a couple of days! 

Upper ocean currents in the north side of Jamaica

A few of the leg 1 scientists featured in the previous posts are leaving and will soon return to their day-jobs and duties! Thank you Kathryn, Josue, Alexis, Vanessa, and Jim for your excellent support during leg 1 of NF1502. We hope you enjoyed your time aboard the NOAA Ship Nancy Foster and can share with your colleagues what you learned about our Biological oceanography survey!

Leg 1 science crew NF1502

We will have a few new faces for leg 2 and we hope to feature them next week as we sample in Jamaica and beyond. The blog will take a break for a few days but will re-post as soon as they sail for leg 2!