Quarterdeck Magazine Online -- Texas A&M Oceanography

Texas A&M University
Department of Oceanography

Summer 1999 - Vol. 7, No. 1

Graduate student photo contest

We've published our favorite photos submitted by Texas A&M Oceanography graduate students for Quarterdeck's first graduate student photography contest. We chose first, second and third place winners in two categories--Ocean Scenery and Students at Work--and also included a handful of our favorites. All photos are copyrighted by the photographer and may not be used without permission. The contest was coordinated and judged by Mike Peccini and Amy Warren.

Ocean Scenery:

FIRST PLACE: (Above) The M/V Kenda, photographed from the M/V Western Hercules. Scientists aboard the ships were conducting seismic soundings of the seafloor in the Gulf of Mexico. By Erick Huchzermeyer.

SECOND PLACE: The sun sets in Pascagoula, Mississippi, before researchers begin the GulfCet II cruise to investigate marine mammal populations in the gulf. By Patrick Ressler.

THIRD PLACE: The Candy Carrier chugs along the Mississippi River in the early morning. By Erick Huchzermeyer.

Students at work:

FIRST PLACE: (Above) As the last rays of sunlight disappear, marine mammal observer Todd Speakman searches the waves for whales through powerful "Big Eye" binoculars. Speakman and others were aboard the R/V Gyre, Texas A&M's research vessel, during the fourth cruise for the Northeast Gulf of Mexico (NEGOM): Chemical Oceanography and Hydrography project. By Patrick Ressler.

SECOND PLACE: Wearing hard hats for protection, oceanographers Liz Harris, John Wormuth, Jose Bersano and Erica Vidal head to the stern of the R/V Gyre to deploy an Isaacs-Kidd midwater trawl (IKMT) during the GulfCet II cruise. By Patrick Ressler.

THIRD PLACE: Ocean scientists relax on the Gyre's deck as the sun sets. Often during research cruises, sunset marks the end of a long day for one shift of workers ... and the beginning of a long night for the next shift. By Erick Huchzermeyer.

Favorites:

Graduate student Sharath Ravula poses with a sea turtle on the Big Island of Hawaii. Contributed by Sharath Ravula.

Seven Texas A&M oceanographers relax at Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico, after a February 1999 meeting of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography in Santa Fe, New Mexico. By Patrick Ressler.

On a NEGOM cruise, graduate student Cheryl Burden filters water. Contributed by Cheryl Burden

The R/V Weatherbird II is docked in Ferry Reach, Bermuda. By Darin Case.

Recent graduate Seong-Joong Kim, now an assistant research scientist at Texas A&M, empties a rosette of Niskin bottles during a training and research cruise aboard the R/V Gyre. By Darin Case.

Sunset in the Gulf of Mexico is a peaceful backdrop to a looming oil platform. By Susie Escorcia.

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