The mercury cruise is well under way with two stations completed! We all have our sea legs by now and have even spotted a few pods of dolphins swimming near the boat. We arrived at our first station Monday around 6PM. As a comprehensive study of mercury in the ocean there are a lot of different projects and different types of sampling that happen at each station. Michael and Katie, two PhD students from the University of Connecticut, are studying zooplankton; Chad, Deepthi, Jaclyn, Avani (Wright State) and Alan (UConn) are studying ocean sediment, and Melissa, Katlin (Wright State) and Tristan (Woods Hole PhD student) are evaluating seawater at various depths.