what's on tonight?

Hi everyone, whoever you are...

I've made numerous sly references to the TV so far. The NBP has a
variety of programming on 24/7 and there are tv's everywhere so you
never miss it.

Here are the listings:

Channel 37: aft starboard cam. good view of the winch control room.

Channel 39: a coil of cable for the winch

Channel 41: another coil of cable for another winch

Channel 43: another view of the starboard side where they launch the
sediment grabber from. Nothing happening right now.

Channel 45: Excitement! the Baltic Room! where the CTD and rosette
is brought in. Currently some sampling going on. More fun in person
than on tv.

Channel 47: The back deck cam. Nice view of the getz ice shelf and
our wake.

Channel 49: The top of the world facing backwards cam. Darker.

Channel 51: starboard cam (higher up). nice view of the emergency
craft and the "Cajun Crusher", a mini icebreaker hanging from the
side of the NBP.

Channel 53: the perpetual sunset cam. I don't know what they've
done, but the sky is always a rosy hue. Our fist view of where we're
going.

Channel 55: Looks like a tracking problem of a camera near the bridge.

Channel 57: a movie channel -- if you want you can put a dvd in the
dry lab DVD player and watch it with the whole ship.

Channel 59: our first info channel. speed, bearing, waypoint (i.e.
next station) information, track, and lat/lon (currently -73.8S,
-127.5W.

Channel 61: mega info channel -- here are some excepts. Weather info
(current and last 24 hours) -- notable, were at .6 celsius -- first
day above freezing since a few weeks ago, two types of depth
measurements, PAR (Photosynthetically Active Radiation -- good for
biologists and suntanning). Also sound relays of the ship radio --
just heard the cap'n announce two orcas off port side.

Channel 63: surface ocean information -- temp, salinity, fluorometer
-- chlorophyll, CO2 concentration, and record of bathymetry

Channel 65: I don't know what this is. it's a plot of something and
it's moving.

Channel 67. The last ctd bottom tracking thing.

Channel 69: The winch information channel. Kind of like the preview
channel for all the winch cams.

Channel 71: a track of the bathymetry with ship position and previous
bathymetric data from other tracks.

Channel 73: a history of the surface ocean measurements.

Channel 75: the CTD channel. very exciting usually but currently
just a computer screen.

Channel 77: the last CTD cast information.

Channel 81: I don't know.

Channel 83: the weather for February 17th, as shown on the intranet
on February 17th. An oldie but a goodie.

I didn't realize this was going to be so long, but I wanted to share
it all with you. In all seriousness, it's extremely useful, but
taking a step back, it's pretty funny too.