Come aboard the Research Vessel MELOSIRA
!

Meet our Captain Nick...

No, Brad is not playing solitaire...he's using the
GPS
to track the boat on the Lake

Click here
to see pictures of the
conductivity
temperature depth (CTD) instrument.
The "Petite Ponar" lowers to take
a sediment sample.

Lunch.
Getting a closer look at the sediment, we discover a
leach,
bloodworms, tiny fish, and of course TOO MANY zebra mussels.

** Click HERE to see the
scanned
SEM pictures!
**Click HERE for pics of
picnic on north beach!
And of course...