L: LUMCON; R: Boarding the Acadiana to go into Terrebonne Bay

L: Houma Navigation Canal; R: Typical oil production platform near Terrebonne Bay

Environments around Terrebonne Bay (L: eroding marsh; R: spoil bank along edge of canal)

Companions on the way out

L: watching dolphins play at the bow of the Acadiana; R: trawling for plankton

L & R: acquiring and examining the plankton sample

Setting out the fish trawl (L: lowering the net; R: anticipating the haul)

R: bring the trawl aboard the Acadiana; R: the catch (mostly hardhead cats, shrimp, & squid)

L & R: Examining the catch

L: Terns following the Acadiana; R: Saturday night at the LUMCON Lab looking at the plankton we had gotten earlier

Sunday morning (L: one of two small boats; R: on the Gulf side of Isle Deniers)

R& L: Seining on Isle Deniers

R: Hank & Margaret discussing the finer points of hardhead catfish spines; R: sampling marsh sediments (the people in the front row are NOT on their knees)

one way to sample the marsh sediments!