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TerryMcT: Booms at Bay Saint Louis
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TerryMcT: Preparing to leave the dock at Bay Saint Louis, MS
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TerryMcT: St Stanislaus School, landmark for the Bay St Louis site
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TerryMcT: Dennis Apeti (left) and Dale Stevens on the water at Bay St Louis
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TerryMcT: Dennis thinking "why does she get me into these things". Just kidding.
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TerryMcT: Booms deployed at Bay Saint Louis, MS
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TerryMcT: NOAA's new fisheries research vessel, the Pisces, at dock in Pascagoula, MS
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TerryMcT: Dennis and Gunnar inspect the trawl ramp on the Pisces
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TerryMcT: Dennis in the wet lab area on the Pisces, used for sorting organisms caught in trawls and other collections.
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TerryMcT: Capt Adams on the bridge of the Pisces
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TerryMcT: Gunnar inspecting part of the bridge on the Pisces
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TerryMcT: Launching the boat at Pascagoula Bay, Mississippi
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TerryMcT: Sorting oysters on Pascagoula Bay, MS
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TerryMcT: Looking for our Pascagoula Bay site
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TerryMcT: A burr fish!
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TerryMcT: Who has a more prickly chin?
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TerryMcT: Bringing the dredge in at Biloxi Bay, MS
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TerryMcT: Oyster shells host a lot of other organisms.
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TerryMcT: Sorting, sorting, sorting. Lots of little critters in and around the oyster shells. Burr fish, squid, shrimp, gobies, blue crabs, mud crabs, polychaete worms, whelks, whelk eggs.....
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TerryMcT: Dennis sorting oysters
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TerryMcT: Dale, our boat captain. He's great to work with
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TerryMcT: Heading out on Biloxi Bay
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TerryMcT: Boat carrying booms, Biloxi Bay
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TerryMcT: Packing up the samples to send to the lab for analysis for contamination.
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TerryMcT: Bringing the sediment grab aboard, Pascagoula
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TerryMcT: Sampling sediment, Pascagoula
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TerryMcT: Sieving sediment to collect burrowing animals, Pascagoula
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TerryMcT: Sediment sampling, Pascagoula
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TerryMcT: The work's not done until the paperwork is finished
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TerryMcT: Preserving infauna sample, Pascagoula