NOAA Ship Thomas JeffersonDeepwater Horizon MC252 Response Effort

Situation Report: June 8th, 2010

Monday evening into Tuesday: Coastal and Western Transects•June 7th, 2000: Begin transect towards Port Fourchon, LA•0530: Arrive Port Fourchon and undergo hull decontamination•0700: Personnel transfer - Daniel Torres, Dirk Graeser and Jennifer Cragan ashore, New : Melissa Patrician (Research Associate, WHOI)•0900: Underway news conference with media representatives from CNN, The Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times•1100: Harbor Police away with news media and water samples•Begin southern transect using MVP and CTD casts•Today’s total: survey 127 LNM, 3 CTD and 46 MVP casts•1900: local position 28-09.9 N , 090-19.29 W•Outlook: June 10th Fisheries Sonar Calibration, June 11th /1000 arrive Galveston, TX Pier 21

Operational Highlights:

Sample Collection

Personnel and Sample TransfersOn police boat

MVP Casts plotted with max fluorescence

Marine mammals joining the TJ underway south of Port Fourchon

TJ’s PositionTrackCTD Cast Location