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Part of the Tales from the Oceanographer and the Captain series:
- Welcome to our story!
- What … Me, an Oceanographer?
- Bringing the Awen Home
In “Tales from the Oceanographer and the Captain”, we will take you to some strange, beautiful, and wild places, show you why we love the ocean and have fun doing oceanography, share music and tales about the great sea around us, and make you curious about the wonderful things scientists have learned, both in the past and present.
Excerpt:
Sometimes, on a hot sunny summer day, when the sea is calm and the ship is on auto-pilot, I like to relax on the back deck. Closing my eyes, I can almost smell the dusty resinous pitch of Ponderosa pine, see the blue-grey gnarly sagebrush hills in my minds-eye, and feel the hot, dry caress of the wind on my skin