Have you seen the environmental data loggers???

We're currently in the middle of Team 5 and it's been an EXTREMELY busy week. Dr. Avery is out of town for vacation and thus Dr. Jim Spotila has been our fearless leader (although he's been spending most of his time writing his new book, "Saving Sea Turtles"). We started the week out with a broken boat, a broken trailer, and a broken freezer. Shortly thereafter, we found that most of our environmental sensors that were placed throughout the bay had gone missing (i.e., they were stolen). Although initially upsetting, Jules, Abby, Andy, and Brianna were quick to volunteer to help me build a new floating board to hold more sensors. In the photo above, you can see Andy, Abby, and Brianna busily working on the new board (with my brand new drill that Jim bought me!). A temperature/light sensor will be placed on one side of the board and then two ibuttons will be suspended from the board into the water column to collect water temperature data. The sensors are programmed to collect one data point every 15 minutes so we should be back in action soon.