Eric D'Asaro      Principal Investigator    Craig Lee      Co-Principal Investigator    Jason Gobat      Co-Principal Investigator    Mike Ohmart      Senior Field Engineer    Eric Rehm      Predoctoral Research Associate    Amanda Gray      Engineer IV    Geoff Shilling      Engineer IV    Adam Huxtable      Engineer III    NSF	STUDENTS TACKLING TOUGH SCIENCE Oceanography graduate students Eric Rehm and Amanda Gray were involved in nearly every aspect of the experiment. They prepared the instruments for deployment, piloted them during the cruises, and presented and distributed all of the results. Their theses are based on data analyses from the experiment. Amanda Gray Gray is tying together float and glider observations with satellite and hydrographic data to examine the physical processes surrounding a seemingly stationary phytoplankton patch. At one point the float became caught in an eddy and traveled around its edge. Data from the float and a Seaglider show that one side of the eddy had a patch of high chlorophyll fluorescence, and the other low. Why did the phytoplankton not spread or advect in a filament? Was it renewal of nutrients through heightened vertical mixing on that edge… or were phytoplankton on the downstream edge being subducted out of the euphotic zone? Stitching together the disparate data from autonomous platforms, shipboard sampling, and satellite imagery, she hopes to create a coherent view of the eddy's physical environment. Eric Rehm Rehm, by studying measurements of the fine spectral variations in the color of light in water, can estimate the size and taxonomic structure of the phytoplankton community during the course of the bloom. This is possible because small phytoplankton absorb light differently than large ones. The 50-day record from the float is rich, but he hopes a similar system is deployed over decadal time scales so that the timing of the bloom and temporal evolution in the phytoplankton size structure can be observed for any impacts due to climate change. Such phenological measurements are standard in the terrestrial studies of primary production, but rare in the marine environment. Phytoplankton