Business as Usual

After a flurry of activity, its been quiet in the field, though the bureaucrats, accountants, and engineers have been busy. The technical types have been integrating the new PacIOOS parts into the system. An engineering study was needed to make sure that the station would not succumb to the ever more occasional typhoons that pass by during "winter" time in the Marianas. Still despite the delays, we remain more or less on schedule and still anticipate having the station on line by this summer. Considering that this station has been nearly eight years of planning-- what is a few more months...