Honey Badger has been on its own for a week now, sailing (steaming? flapping?) its way north. All the sensors are working pretty well. There is a bit of a puzzle with one of the C3 sensors that is reporting chlorophyll, CDOM (colored dissolved organic material) and phycoerythrin. It is connected to a computer board that allows us to change the sampling and averaging. For some, yet unknown reason, the values from a single measurement every 10 minutes are 2 times the value of the values when 10 samples are taken and averaged together. This is the data feed on the webpage, and you can see the jump back and forth as we changed the sampling. It's very odd. Fortunately, we have a redundant C3 sensor as well as the phytoflash unit. This latter instrument is not on the webpage since the data is a bit complicated to use and not as obvious as to meaning as things like temperature, salinity and pigment.
When in Hawaii, I was given a unique WaveGlider data stick. It's cool.
I wish it had a working sub-body (the part with the flapping vanes) so that we could have races!
Next time, I will tell the story of the Honey Badger Naming Ceremony that happened in Monterey, CA.
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