We begin with a beautiful compiled image from Bob "bad boy" Arnone and his mighty NRL team. The image shows that chlorophyll is low. The image show an inshore current heading alonshore combined with an offshore the eddy. What is exciting is that the gliders show a similar bifuriciation.

The two Rutgers gliders are making good progress. They are split, and the interestingly they seem to have split right at a front given that the currents are different bewteen the two gliders. One glider is figting an onshore current in the offshore while a second is surfing with an alongshore current in the nearshore waters. The water is clear and stratified. The backscatter shows that the surface water has low but hugher particle loads in the surface waters. Interestingly, the chlorophyll does not show the increased load in the surface. One idea in our proposal with Chuck that funded this work was that submicron dust from the Sub Sahara might increase the particle load. Also it is exciting that the CDOM appears to be enhanced in the bottom waters below the thermocline. I guess it is time to learn the Liguarin sea! The radiometer is recording a beautiful day night beahvior in irrafiance, so it is very exciting we have confirmed using robots that the sun rises and the sun sets..... Guess that last observation makes me look like a loser!





