Cramer is sleepy today as she rocks back and forth at anchor. We arrived in St. Thomas yesterday after a short sail from Francis Bay, St. John. We still have a little bit of the bay with us, sitting in jars and bottles ready to be processed and analyzed. Two of those bottles are mine, filled with green-brown murky water, a strikingly different color than the rich teal sea they were collected from. Inside my vials, hundreds of plankton swim and float, causing the muddy color.

Today was our first day of reef surveys!

For Immediate Release: Nov. 23, 2021
SEA Students Study Coral Reef Ecology on Tall Ship Ocean Research Voyage

Hello from C-301!
As the first student to write a post, I would like to welcome you to our blog! As of today (Tuesday) we have been in the USVI for two full days.

Farewell to the month of November from the SSV Corwith Cramer!

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“Cramer! This is What You’ve Been Waiting For!”

We board the SSV Corwith Cramer tomorrow! It’s been a long road to get here already (literally and figuratively), and we haven’t yet set eyes on the ship. We’ll run you through some of the details.