Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:19:02 -0800
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From: Rose Dufour <rdufour@ucsd.edu>
Subject: Fwd: Re: February transit, Melville
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>>  Rose and/or Liz,
>>
>> On the Melville schedule for February 2010 there is a transit from Valpo
>> to Puerto Montt, February 18 - 22.  There is a note about 2 days of
>> testing for Simrad 122.  Will those be days at sea? More to the point,
>> will that transit actually be 5 days at sea, or only 3?
>>
>> If the transit is 5 days at sea, it might make sense for me to try to
>> join, and to test volunteer crewmembers each day at sea. As a reminder,
>> we request about a dozen volunteers, each of which is tested no more
>> than 10 minutes each day. The tests consist of standing on a glorified
>> bathroom scale (which tells us how the body moves) while doing simple
>> visual tasks presented on a computer screen.
>>
>> This transit would be especially tempting if I understand the note for
>> Feb. 14 - 17.  If I could board on the 16th, I might be able to do "dry
>> land" testing (of volunteer crewmembers) on the 17th, and use those data
>> as a comparison for data collected at sea during the transit.
>>
>> Please let me know whether there might be any options for this transit.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Tom Stoffregen
>> University of Minnesota
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>

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