SEA Currents: Robert C. Seamans
March 27, 2019
S-285: Oceans & Climate
The students of Class S-285, Oceans & Climate, join the SSV Robert C. Seamans in Lyttelton, New Zealand on March 28th. The voyage ends in Papeete, Tahiti on May 4th, after port stops in the Chatham Islands and Raiatea.
Students
Rafaela Altman-Allen, Roger Williams University
Mechteld Kuijpers, Oberlin College
Elizabeth Leadley, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
Noah Lipnick, Bowdoin College
Claire Mayorga, University of Texas, Austin
Amy Mikolajczyk, SUNY Maritime College
Allyson Nestler, Warren Wilson College
Camille Ross, Colby College
Josephine Sullivan, East Carolina University
Virginia Svec, Smith College
Julia Taylor, Eckerd College
Adrienne Tracy, Colby College
Cecily Tye, University of California, Berkeley
Embla Uleberg, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Raven Ward, Colorado College
Ship's Company
Master: Jay Amster
Chief Mate: Cassie Sleeper
2nd Mate: Tristan Feldman
3rd Mate: Megan Frey
Engineer: Clare Feely
Assistant Engineer: Amber Kinter
Steward: Sabrina Hutchinson
Chief Scientist: Ben Harden
Assistant Scientist: Gabrielle Page
Assistant Scientist: Stephen Kielar
Assistant Scientist: Erin Houlihan
Sailing Intern: Kelsey Altmayer
Sailing Intern: Hannah Moench
Sailing Intern: Krista Norris
Sailing Intern: Harry Podolsky
Sailing Intern: Sophie Vallas
Visiting Scientist: Alice Della Penna
Voyager: Oleta Corry
Voyager: Paul Willems
Reactions
Hi, Oleta,
Talked with Randy Sat. night (30th) and he caught me up on your last communique with him about the ship being still in port because of the storms. A very good thing, no doubt. Sahvanna performed so well at the BYU-I Fashion Show. Her roommate wore the beautiful dress down the runway because Sahvanna couldn’t be in two places at once. Sahvanna was one of the catering managers who supervised, helped prepare, and fed the 3000 people who showed up. By the way she got the job at the motel, cleaning rooms. Scott goes in for knee replacement on April 8. Hope you and the crew are doing well. We will be following you on this site when you get underway. Love ya, Quata
We hope that your journey is off to a fabulous start. All is well in Maine where we are slogging our way through mud season 
All the best and may you have fair skies and following seas.
Jeff & Mary Ellen Tracy
Just a quote from a salty old New Englander ...
“All of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean ... And when we go back to the sea – we are going back from whence we came.”
John F. Kennedy