Time: 1520 Local, 0520 Z
Observer: Gillman & Post
GPS Ship Position:
   Lat. 10 deg. 44.3 min. S
   Long. 140 deg. 25.0 min. E
    Heading: 089 deg
Surface Wind: 9 m/s @ 135 deg. (14 m height)
Air Temp: (n/a) C (13 m height
Sea Temp: 27.9C (5 m depth)
Rel. Humidity: (n/a) % (13 m height)
Precipitation last 24 hr: (trace) mm
Cloud Layer Heights: MMCR Cloud Images
    Ceilometer: 0.5 - 0.9 km
    Radar: 0.5 - 1.0, 12.0 - 13.5 km
    Lidar: 0.8, 5.0 km bases
Radiosonde Inversion Height: 1.75 km @ 1045 Z
Visual Observations: enerally overcast, but with multi-layered clouds and occasional sunlight. Whitecaps on 1-2 m waves.

Notable Events and Anecdotes: Several scientists are groggy today (sea sick). RHB lost a "drag race" with a freighter. Several flying fish were spotted. At night the DABUL lidar beam appears as green light column rising into the empty sky. Tonight we embark a pilot to guide RHB through Torres Straits (required by regulation). We are building an intranet system to post and share data and images. A series of informal seminars by Nauru99 investigators begins in two days and will occuring twice per week; the talks will be for both the ship's crew and the science party.

Instrument Status: All doing well, but not all are taking data due to salt spray.