Meet Charlie

My name is Charlie Morgan and I am an REU fellow at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory in Maryland for the summer of ’08. I was raised in Arkansas for the majority of my life and have never been to the ocean, much less a large boat. Imagine my surprise when NSF [The National Science Foundation, our funding source for the Bering Ecosystem Study] gave me the opportunity to ship off to the Bering Sea. This is something of a summer of new experiences for me and this is among the most exciting.

I will post several blog entries during my time at sea. These can be used for teaching purposes or just to show inexperienced people, like I am now, what something like this can be like. I will be participating in as many activities as possible to give me a wide perspective of oceanography, and hopefully heighten the experience not only for myself, but for anybody interested in the subject well enough to read my blog. I hope that all who read this are given a good idea of what this kind of work is actually like, given straight from the mind of someone who is as green as they get when it comes to oceanography. If I can help someone at all with a decision for a particular career through my experiences and consequent journal entries, I will do my best to do so.