Julia O'Hern is an Oceanography student who has taken part in many cruises for classroom credit. Below are a list of her current sea-going experiences and photographs from those cruises.

Research Cruises

• Ecuadorian Marine Mammal and Habitat Survey INOCAR CO-01-08; B.I. Orion, April 2-April 22, 20 days, conducted a visual survey for marine mammals between Ecuador and Galápagos Islands.
  
  Below: Students photographing organisms at the Charles Darwin Station.
• Ecuadorian Marine Mammal and Habitat Survey INOCAR CO-01-08; B.I. Orion, Sept 23-Oct 10, 15 days, conducted a visual survey for marine mammals between Ecuador and Galápagos Islands.
• Synoptic Antarctic Shelf Slope Interactions Study: Spanish Naval Vessel, Hespérides. Jan. 2- Jan 23 2008, 21 days: Research Assistant to Dr. Shari Yvon-Lewis: water sample collection and analysis of halogenated carbon samples with a Gas Chromatograph-Mass Spectrometer. Completed regular hydrophone acoustic listening stations for cetaceans.
• Methods Controlling Hypoxia: LUMCON Ship Pelican, Sept. 2007; April 2008, 4 days: CTD rosette deployment & recovery, plankton tows, water samples
• Gulf of Mexico East Coast Carbon Cruise: NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown, July 2007, 26 days: Research Assistant to Dr. Shari Yvonn-Lewis: water sample collection and analysis of halogenated carbon samples with a Gas Chromatograph-Mass Spectrometer. Completed regular hydrophone acoustic listening stations for cetaceans.
• Galapagos Cetacean Survey: Oceanographic Institute of the Ecuadorian Navy ship Rigel, May 2007: Acoustic cetacean surveys using an underwater, over-the-side hydrophone and analogue recorder and visual behavioral observations
• Western Boundary Current Time-Series: NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown, March 2006 & 2007, 21 days & 19 days: Research Assistant to Dr. Shari Yvon-Lewis
• Merrimack Plume: R/V Lucky Lady, Merrimack River: May 2006 &2007, 3 & 5 days: operation of a towed CTD and underway ADCP.
• Gulf of Mexico: R/V Gyre, Gulf of Mexico, Aug. 2005: plankton tows, 3 days
• Cornell University Field Program in Earth and Environmental Systems, Spring 2004: deployment of a buoy hydrophone array to detect humpback whale presence; terrestrial field surveys
• Shoals Marine Laboratory, Summer 2001: transect study along Appledore Island intertidal zone, invertebrate and plankton taxonomy
  
  Right: photograph of striped dolphin.

Technical Dive Experience

• Buoy K Recovery, Port Aransis, TX, June, 2008: 3 dives to remove an anchor line and attach a tow line to the buoy.
• Buoy H Dive: Port Aransis, TX, Oct. 2007: 3 dives for removal of entangled fishnet from a scientific buoy and instruments.