Sea Trials Transit

Daily Science Report for 28 February 2009

LOCATION: In transit to Honolulu, Hawaii

SCIENCE UPDATE: The Readiness Assessment Team continued preparing assessment reports in parallel to finalizing science data for the 320T preliminary report. Technical documentation and user guides are being finalized and are available in the new digital assessment management system (Cumulus). Of the 262 documents available in Cumulus, 66 are user guides, 190 are system documents, and 6 are advanced user guides. Acceptance testing continued for the few not yet accepted systems and applications.

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Ship highlight of the day: Computer User Room & IT Offices

The lower 'Tween deck houses the Computer User Room, the IT Office, the Application Developer's Office, and data storage. The user room is available for use by the scientific and technical staff.
IT Office used by the Marine Computer Specialists.
Computer User Room panorama (Quicktime VR). Click and drag to pan around. Use the Shift and Control keys to zoom in and out.

See iodp.tamu.edu/labs/ship.html for more details on the ship's new laboratories.