Report of Ann Bodio, student technician, second week of work, June 2002.

"Today before the boat departed Woods Hole... I met Kevin from the Marine Biological Laboratory so I could deliver back to Rick some empty (water sample) bottles. On Monday mornings my professor Enid Sichel from the Mass. Maritime Academy came over on the boat with me to check in and make sure everything is running smoothly...I am responsible every day for cleaning the six filter bags over the tables on the main floor as well as the `elephant bag.' I also feed the oysters downstairs on the tables. It was pretty heavy carrying 14 liters of algae down two flights of stairs." (The algae food is cultivated in large cylinders on the top floor. See the photos.)

"On my walk to work I saw a wild turkey. One kind of cool thing about triploids (chromosome number = three times the monoploid number) (is) that they don't spawn but they usually grow faster than some other forms of shellfish."

..."dropped off a quahog (a shellfish common in Massachusetts) that was sick to Kevin at the MBL." (Kevin works with Dr. Roxanna Smolowitz, a veterinary pathologist at the MBL.)