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[d0cent]

Thank you all for the wishes!!!

[arboggs]

Hey all, I've got a meeting on Tuesday with Tim Walker (from the NPR interview) and Dr. Caroline Ummenhofer from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. I'll keep you posted on how it goes.

[Michael]

Good luck!!!

[espross]

That's great! Please let us (me) know if we (I) can contribute somehow--

[arboggs]

(Hopefully this will result in the whaling logbooks starting back up, espross, in which case I'll message you first )

[arboggs]

Meeting Update!

I would say the meeting went well. We are in tentative initial talks to possibly either merge projects or become sister projects. Tim, Caroline, and I will talk more over the next couple of weeks to see what that might look like. Our interests in the logbooks seem to align, though, so that is a good sign. Sorry I don't have anything more definitive yet, but it's the best lead I've had in months. Everyone cross your fingers!

[Randi]

Wonderful!!!

[espross]

Neat! Thanks for doing that. Do they have a website describing what they’re doing (I could Google this but thought you might know)?

[arboggs]

Here you go: https://www.whoi.edu/press-room/news-re ... -logbooks/

[Michael]

[Caro]

Glad to hear this news, April. Fingers crossed!

[pommystuart]

Another good article from the Oz ABC.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-31/ ... /102391534

Sorry it is hard to put site between url tags on a mobile phone.

[Michael]

My goodness. That was quite some article! Worth reading, for sure.

[Randi]

Helen J
Gone but never forgotten

Burials at sea and other recorded deaths

[Michael]

[Caro]

Today's new word, from among many created in Germany in response to the pandemic. What do you think a Schnutenpulli is? Literally it's a snout sweater - so a cosier word for mask.
Helen Julian, 2 March 2021

Missed by all.

[Randi]

Craig
Gone but never forgotten

Burials at sea and other recorded deaths

[Michael]

I do miss Craig. He did a lot of work on the early versions of the spreadsheet, and he was a great help guiding me on the intricacies of LibreCalc basic. He had relatives that lived across the inlet from our house, and he spent a couple of summers there about 60 years ago. I worked at a park that bordered his neighbour's cabin, and we figured we probably bumped into each other during the summers that he was there.

[Randi]

Hanibal94 / Chris
Gone but never forgotten

Burials at sea and other recorded deaths

[Michael]

He was a good friend, and he is missed.