Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Brooke Basse and
Christopher Bossie 7/29
This morning
everyone seemed to sleep in a little longer after a full first day.
Although we have a wide variety of breakfast items to choose from the
majority of us had cereal - bowls of cereal are the quickest food to
chow on that enables you to hit the snooze button one or twice just so
you can get a little more rest for the day ahead. The group still got
out the door at the requested departure time of 0830 and was on our way
to NOAA for a second day of cataloging photos. Chris and I started at
8:45 on our first envelope of photos for the day and were able to get
through 4 envelopes before we took a lunch break. The envelopes that we
were looking through were averaging 25 photos each which took us around
40 min each to complete. Let me note that we have to scan, and enter
specific data from each photo and it becomes a little repetitive and
takes a lot longer than one would expect. Even with our imputing system
down, which seemed to be working very well for us, the 2 of us got a
little discouraged when we looked at how many more envelopes, let alone
boxes, we needed to finish! During this mornings cataloging I
went to check and see how the other groups were doing and noticed that
we were all cataloging the photos and entering them into the data base
in different ways. This lead to an extensive questioning session with
Anne just to make sure we were doing this correctly. We are, however,
doing important work that will be used by NOAA and future researchers of
these wrecks.
Practicing the angle-distance technique.
After an hour break
for lunch back to the photos we go! I think at this point everyone was
getting a little frustrated of this process. Just to give an example of
how “interesting” this part can be, I got excited when a couple photos
gave the depth of what was in the picture - so I got to enter something
into a new field in the database. I know, I know, people must be
wondering how dorky it sounds to get excited about something so trivial
in a photo that we have to enter into the database, but trust me,
if anyone was actually doing what we were today you would have gotten
excited as well! However, just like every other type of work or job in
the real world, one needs to put in the time just so you can enjoy the
really exciting stuff like the dives we have to look forward to in the
next few days. That makes all the hard work worth it! The 3 groups
plugged away at the computers till 4:30 at which point we had to leave
early in order to get a lecture in before dinner.
Project Director Anne Corscadden
discusses site measurement techniques.
Tonight our lecture
was on mapping techniques. This was an exciting and informative lecture
since we got a little flavor of what we were expected to know how to do
at the Sanford site. Once we all felt comfortable with our group
members on how to perform the mapping techniques we all sat down to a
“PAST Family” dinner of lasagna with a little surprise from Tessa with
cake for dessert!
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