L) Preparing to leave LUMCON on Saturday morning; R) LUMCON viewed from the water.
L) Cocodrie is a center for the local fishing and oil industries; R) On the way to the freshwater marsh.
L) In the Houma Navigation Canal; R) Marsh vegetation along the banks of a canal.
L) Rebecca Daniels is helped back into the boat after sampling marsh vegetation and sediments; R) Taking water samples.
L) Boats returning from Saturday's field trip; R) Dinner for the hungry crew.
After dinner we had time for a group photo: L to R: Julia Jennings, Caroline Pruitt, Pam Thompson, Tyler Curl, Joseph (J.J.) Mack, Scot Noble, Bjorn Myrum, Nate Moore, Rebecca Daniels, Nicole Youngman, Shelley Kahler, Alana Paul, Brendon Sher, Scott Wall, Meredith Younghein, Andy Skorupski, Jennifer Hileman, Breck Baird, Eliza Wethey, Gabrielle Russel, Jessica Tippens, Chris Mussilino (not shown but on the trip Jenny Lovell, Andrea Tesvich).
L) Saturday night in the lab: Jess Kastner (green shirt in foreground) discussing marine ecosystems processes; R) Scott Noble tests for dissolved oxygen.
Sunday in Timbalier Bay. L) Rebecca Daniels tests for salinity and dissolved oxygen; R) Preparing the otter trawl.
L) Nicole Youngman (seated), Breck Baird, Gabrielle Russell, and Jessica Tippens watch the catch come up; R) A sunny day in Timbalier Bay.
On Trinity Island. L) A statue of the Virgin Mary rescued from the eroding eastern end of the island; R) Discussing barrier island restoration at the dock on Trinity Island.
On the Gulf side of Trinity Island; L) Cleaning the beach; R) Rebecca Daniels (far left), who is also head of the Green Club, got to participate in a beach sweep after all!
L) The students work their way down the beach; R) Pam Thompson, Alana Paul, Jenny Lovell, and Meredith Younghein showing their MiRV spirit.
L) Nicole Youngman, our Graduate Student TA shows the finer points of beach combing; R) One of the denizens of Trinity Island.
Since the beach was there anyway...; R) Scott Wall (right foreground) emerges from his swim.
L) Scott Noble (left) and J.J. Mack at trinity Island; R) Leaving Trinity Island.
L) Pam Thompson and Jennifer Hileman at Trinity Island; R) Off to explore salt marsh sediments in Timbalier Bay.
L) Caroline Pruitt samples marsh sediments; R) Scott wall (in his Cajun loafers) joins in.
L) T.R. Kidder (in red shorts) and Jess Kastner discuss sediment formation; R) Here we learn firsthand about how organic sediments look, feel, and smell.
The instructors doing their job: L) T.R. Kidder; R) Scott Wall
L) Scott and J.J. fell the power of the sediments; R) On the way out of Cocodrie we saw this modern cemetery placed on an Indian mound. The landscape of the delta reflects how humans have been influenced by the natural processes of the Mississippi River and its tributaries. Here past and present are intertwined and at times indivisible.